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DanThompsonIdeas is my attempt at spreading big ideas in little ways.

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Wisconsin in New York? Politics, Policy & the Public Interest

The recent attempts to constrict collective bargaining and to reduce public employee costs touched off a national political storm in Wisconsin. What lessons should New York State draw from the recent political unrest in Wisconsin? "Wisconsin in New York? Politics, Policy & the Public Interest" is a debate between leading progressive and conservative experts Richard Brodsky and Daniel DiSalvo on the New York's uncertain financial future. These leading experts on national labor issues will deb...

Apr 29, 2011

Higher Education?

Higher Education? In Higher Education? WPI Senior Fellow Claudia Dreifus and renowned sociologist Andrew Hacker deliver a call to arms and make an incisive case that the American way of higher education, now a $420 billion-per-year business, has lost sight of its primary mission: the education of young adults. Going behind the myths and mantras, they trace how a system has simultaneously blown up and broken down, and discuss their controversial proposals for repairing it....

Feb 03, 2011

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