Search LBO-Talk Archives

2131 [lbo-talk] How Much Do College Students Learn, and Study? -- rank: 1000

On Feb 6, 2011, at 11:57 AM, Dissenting Wren wrote: > Or you can just sneer and dismiss the problem. It amuses me that some of the sneerers have PhDs. Doug

Document Size:	4897
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 6 09:42:19 PST 2011

2132 [lbo-talk] How Much Do College Students Learn, and Study? -- rank: 1000

On Feb 6, 2011, at 10:02 AM, shag carpet bomb wrote: > My guess is that his view is much like mine: who gives a shit? What changes once you find out, that, OMIGOD! colleges don't produce critical thinking skills because Capital doesn't want us smart enough to figure out we are enchained. Well yeah. I'm amazed at the implication you think I think otherwise. But isn't it a radical demand that colleges do produce those things, against the wishes of capital? Surely we have a lot of allies in the ...

Document Size:	5304
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 6 09:41:20 PST 2011

2133 [lbo-talk] new radio product -- rank: 1000

BEHIND THE NEWS with Doug Henwood "Best Music on an Economics & Politics Radio Show" Village Voice Best of NYC 2005 Just posted to my radio archive <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html>: February 5, 2011 Lance Lochner, author of this NBER paper, on the social returns to education (lower crime, better health) Vijay Prashad of Trinity College on the Egyptian revolution it joins: -------- January 29, 2011 Mark LeVine of the University of California Irvine (and autho ...

Document Size:	7555
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 4 18:20:10 PST 2011

2134 [lbo-talk] Obama to unions: drop dead -- rank: 1000

http://beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=8870 Obama s Choice of Charlotte a Slap in Face to Organized Labor by Randy Shaw Feb. 04 2011 In choosing Charlotte, North Carolina to host the 2012 Democratic National Convention, President Obama selected a city with no unionized hotels, a non-union convention center, and the least union membership of the four options. Last October, UNITE HERE President John Wilhelm wrote a letter to the Democratic National Committee, stating that Charlotte s non-u ...

Document Size:	6471
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 4 13:50:04 PST 2011

2135 [lbo-talk] How Much Do College Students Learn, and Study? -- rank: 1000

On Feb 4, 2011, at 3:17 PM, Alan Rudy wrote: > What values undergird your position, Carrol My theory is that, from all my years of reading CC, he believes that one should never accuse the masses of embodying any social pathologies. That would be to deflect attention and blame from the ruling class (though blaming a class does imply a bit more agency than CC seems to be comfortable with). But if you believe that the masses contract no pathologies, I wonder why you'd be a socialist. Doug

Document Size:	5231
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 4 12:31:34 PST 2011

2136 [lbo-talk] How Much Do College Students Learn, and Study? -- rank: 1000

On Feb 4, 2011, at 2:57 PM, SA wrote: > On 2/4/2011 2:36 PM, Angelus Novus wrote: > >> Here's a relevant quote from Chomsky: >> See, the idea that people could be free is extremely frightening to any¬body with power. That's why the 1960s have such a bad reputation. I mean, there's a big literature about the Sixties, and it's mostly written by intellectuals, because they're the people who write books, so naturally it has a very bad name-because they hated it. You could see it in ...

Document Size:	6751
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 4 12:05:54 PST 2011

2137 [lbo-talk] how-the-average-us-consumer-spends-their-paycheck -- rank: 1000

On Feb 3, 2011, at 3:22 AM, Mike Beggs wrote: > If there's a single shining light in the US public > sector it's stats. Yes. The stats are terrific - and collected and published in an admirably open manner. You can call them up and chat about the figures and they will tell you the truth in an intelligent manner. Doug

Document Size:	5001
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 4 06:37:55 PST 2011

2138 [lbo-talk] How much do college students... -- rank: 1000

On Feb 3, 2011, at 12:36 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote: > Given the massive de-skilling of most work (including education), what's the connection between productivity and a good educational system? A lot of work has been de-skilled, but a lot hasn't. Could you do your job without gobs of education? Could anyone at Oracle or Sun or Apple? There's a lot of mind-numbing stuff about factory work, but that requires skills too. Doug

Document Size:	5087
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 3 09:45:28 PST 2011

2139 [lbo-talk] How much do college students... -- rank: 1000

On Feb 3, 2011, at 12:21 PM, SA wrote: >> So why is so much attention devoted to marginal >> differences in educational attainment among developed nations? "Human capital" >> theory exists in order to avoid fundamental realities of capitalist >> exploitation. Why would anyone on a leftist listserv want to indulge that line >> of thinking? > > This isn't a propaganda or a cheerleading listserv. No it's not. And radical critics of capitalism have to be ...

Document Size:	5255
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 3 09:36:31 PST 2011

2140 [lbo-talk] How much do college students... -- rank: 1000

On Feb 3, 2011, at 10:48 AM, Alan Rudy wrote: > I thought the general argument for increases in productivity were rooted in > studies that show Americans working longer and harder for effectively no > more in wages and salaries - not in much of anything to do with the > development of new, more sophisticated skill sets. According to orthodox pundits like Gordon, in the late 1990s, the productivity acceleration was mostly about an increase in high-tech investment. Since 2000, it's mos ...

Document Size:	5170
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 3 08:52:17 PST 2011

2141 [lbo-talk] How much do college students... -- rank: 1000

On Feb 3, 2011, at 8:53 AM, David Green wrote: > Doug, do you think that anything that our educational system could have done > over the past 30 years could have increased the current productivity of the > American worker? Do you think that there are any jobs going unfilled because > there are not workers with the skill to perform them at an adequately productive > level? Do you think that other countries that have "better" educational systems > enable their workers t ...

Document Size:	6060
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 3 08:50:45 PST 2011

2142 [lbo-talk] Definition of nation (was as if on cue) -- rank: 1000

On Feb 3, 2011, at 11:29 AM, Wendy Lyon wrote: > Whether or not it's "favorable", there doesn't seem to be much > evidence that it actually exists as an alternative to national > identity. The latter is as strong as ever in Europe. Some nationalisms > seem to be growing stronger (Catalunya, Flanders) and new ones are > emerging (Northern Ireland). > > There is a European identity of course, but for the overwhelming > majority of Europeans* it exists alongside - ...

Document Size:	5594
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 3 08:46:10 PST 2011

2143 [lbo-talk] Battle of the Museums -- rank: 1000

On Feb 2, 2011, at 5:23 PM, dredmond at efn.org wrote: > CNN's > Anderson Cooper was beaten by government thugs right in front of the > cameras Was he wearing a tight black t-shirt?

Document Size:	4766
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 2 14:34:29 PST 2011

2144 [lbo-talk] help wanted -- rank: 1000

[I was looking at salaries for union jobs recently. Very nice.] 1199SEIU Hiring Researchers in New York and Baltimore Researcher 1199 SEIU United Healthcare Workers East is the largest, fastest growing and most progressive union in the United States, representing over 300,000 hospital, nursing home, homecare and human service workers. The members of 1199 SEIU are driven by a mission to achieve affordable, quality healthcare for all. We are currently looking for researchers based in New York Ci ...

Document Size:	6819
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 2 14:28:10 PST 2011

2145 [lbo-talk] How much do college students... -- rank: 1000

On Feb 2, 2011, at 4:44 PM, David Green wrote: > Can someone explain to me the relevance of Gordon's study to education, > employment, or poverty? Can someone explain why I should supposedly believe that > in a rich country in which productivity still increases steadily, that somehow > that reflects a problem with what or how much students allegedly learn or know, > as based on standardized tests? I don't mean these questions at all > rhetorically. But what I draw from the data ...

Document Size:	5940
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 2 13:58:59 PST 2011