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3901 [lbo-talk] reworking the federal budget -- rank: 149

>Those interesting pollsters at PIPA have a new one out - how >Americans would redo the federal budget ><http://www.pipa.org/OnlineReports/budget/030705/Report03_07_05.pdf>. >Highlights: big cuts in military spending, big increases in social >spending, esp on education, and on the environment. > >Not, of course, that ...

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3902 [lbo-talk] The Dollar and the American Language -- rank: 149

Dennis Redmond dredmond at efn.org, Sun Mar 6 11:06:08 PST 2005: >>How do military and administrative costs of the US empire, measured >>by proportions of GDP, compare with those of the British and other >>empires that it replaced? > >The research I've seen on military spending suggests the ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 8 08:26:52 PST 2005

3903 [lbo-talk] A Modest Proposal: Back to Classics -- rank: 149

Wojtek wrote that "the idea of students judging teachers is a democracy of fools in my book" (at <http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20050307/004681.html>). Student-evaluation forms are very much like customer-complaint forms. So, it is not surprising that teachers end up ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 8 06:20:36 PST 2005

3904 [lbo-talk] A Modest Proposal -- rank: 149

snitilicious at tampabay.rr.com snitilicious at tampabay.rr.com, Sat Mar 5 18:42:12 PST 2005: >Eric Fromm made mention of some research to support this --though I >can't recall the title at the mo'. I think it's spot on. Why does >there have to be some ...

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Date:	Sun Mar 6 10:41:05 PST 2005

3905 [lbo-talk] The Dollar and the American Language -- rank: 149

Dennis Redmond dredmond at efn.org, Sat Mar 5 22:39:00 PST 2005: >The cellphone market contradicts your thesis of an all-encompassing, >almighty, impregnable US Empire. This is 2005, not 1985. Almighty and impregnable? That's not my thesis -- in fact, you are attributing to me an idea of ...

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Date:	Sun Mar 6 09:30:35 PST 2005

3906 [lbo-talk] Banking Model of Education -- rank: 149

louis kontos louis.kontos at liu.edu, Sat Mar 5 17:48:35 PST 2005: >As for Freire, most high school teachers and university professors >that I've spoken with don't seem to know him. Students in the dept. >of education at my university read 'about' him (also they read ...

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Date:	Sun Mar 6 03:00:56 PST 2005

3907 [lbo-talk] The Need for "Reform" (Re: A Modest Proposal) -- rank: 149

>When you talk about substantive reforms of these major institutions >while keeping the rudiments of capitalism, you can't make >assumptions that things "would" happen in a positive way. Indeed, >in these parameters, I'd be very surprised if there's any reform of >these major institutions that can't ...

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Date:	Sat Mar 5 18:49:55 PST 2005

3908 [lbo-talk] Banking Model of Education (Re; Japanese students can't place N.Korea) -- rank: 149

I don't support the idea of more testing anywhere, since too many courses at all levels are already designed around tests and nothing else. I never use the language of 'standards' unless tied to specific programs, policies, etc., because there is no such thing as a neutral context for a ...

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Date:	Sat Mar 5 17:48:35 PST 2005

3909 [lbo-talk] A Modest Proposal (Re: America No. 1?) -- rank: 149

"Mark Lause" <MLause at cinci.rr.com>, Sat, 5 Mar 2005 03:55:42 -0500: >One has to take poll results with very great skepticism. Asked >about their beliefs, people tend to respond in a way they feel is >expected. Most Bush voters described themselves as churchgoers, but >church attendance ...

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Date:	Sat Mar 5 12:34:13 PST 2005

3910 [lbo-talk] Banking Model of Education (Re; Japanese students can't place N.Korea) -- rank: 149

yellek oudeis at gmail.com, Fri Mar 4 15:52:42 PST 2005: >WRT the conversation about generational decline. I like the way >Louis Kontos put it, since the idea that schools are nothing more >than warehouses was put forth by Bowles and Gintis many moons ago. >Schools were bad and ...

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3911 [lbo-talk] The Dollar and the American Language -- rank: 149

Dennis Redmond dredmond at efn.org, Thu Mar 3 15:33:52 PST 2005: >>Just as the dollar, made the global reserve currency by the sword, >>has allowed Washington to run an empire on budget and trade >>deficits, the American Language, an inheritor of the linguistic >>estate of the British Empire ...

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Date:	Sat Mar 5 10:29:55 PST 2005

3912 [lbo-talk] Unions in Public and Private Sectors -- rank: 149

kevin lapalme laborcommons at yahoo.com, Fri Mar 4 18:46:45 PST 2005: >--- John Lacny <jlacny at earthlink.net> wrote: >>I can GUARANTEE you that no janitor on earth thinks of himself or >>herself as a "professional," especially not in the way you're >>talking about. The same thing goes ...

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Date:	Sat Mar 5 07:50:06 PST 2005

3913 [lbo-talk] Auschwitz/Oswiecim/Oshpitsin -- rank: 149

Yes, just as the famous (in Eastern European Jewish culture) "Wise Men of Chelm" -- supposed sages who were gently mocked as fools in children's stories, along with their foolish townsfolk, all disappeared up the chimneys as Chelmo, one of the four genuine Nazi extermination camps dedicated to no other purpose ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 4 13:21:03 PST 2005

3914 [lbo-talk] U.S. working class: the younger, the smarter -- rank: 149

Matthew Snyder mwsnyder at gmail.com, Thu Mar 3 17:40:16 PST 2005: >I'm not trying to suggest that there's something wrong with reading >and writing papers, or that older people can't deal with technology, >or anything like that. It's just that anytime I hear insults ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 4 11:39:26 PST 2005

3915 [lbo-talk] Auschwitz/Oswiecim/Oshpitsin -- rank: 149

Chris Doss lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com, Fri Mar 4 08:34:04 PST 2005: >I don't know Polish, which looks to me like some kind of demented >Russian in Latin characters typed by a monkey, but as far as I know >"Auschwitz" is the Germanized spelling of "Oswiecim," i.e ...

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