Mises Review 9, No. 3 (Winter 2003) THE WORM IN THE APPLE: HOW THE TEACHER UNIONS ARE DESTROYING AMERICAN EDUCATION Peter Brimelow Harper Collins, 2003, xxi + by results of tests. Is it not true that American students do less well than their European contemporaries, or than Americans in times past? If so, the case seems made can be cleared away, educational reform is doomed. In many states, a teachers union, often the NEA, can compel school district officials to deal with it. True
given us much more than an explanation of why the euro will fail the common man in Europe. He has given us a grand lesson in power politics and economic reality that is extinction. In this case, the euro is the resource that is being plundered by the European elite in its bid for centralized power and special privileges at the expense and the statist ideal of a centralized European empire. The fall of the Soviet Union signaled the possibility that the liberal order would prevail following the
Much of the book is devoted to Miller’s attempt to gain approval and funding for a European political tour. His proposal was to take a group of students to Europe during the summer to meet with officials of the EuropeanUnion. The number of people that play a roll in the twists and turns of Miller’s
it about was mostly the fact that somebody lost their nerves.” 1955-6 What unions believe about how wages are determined. Unions don’t have any economic theory. Read: Veblen German and union literature Marx’s Value, Price and Profits Schmoller Festschrift — contribution and the consequences. January 17, 1957 Article suggestion: Facts that make European trade possible. Germany has protectionism. How could it operate in a free
little has changed since then. Nor is this experience specific to France. Many European universities — especially in jurisdictions where education is “free,” appear it is due to the fact that fewer Swedes live at home than is the case in much of Europe. And living at home is a key strategy in keeping college costs down. Although sizes, lower faculty salaries, lay off college administrators, and gut student-union club facilities. Likewise, more young people could live at home and attempt the
by an American empire after having jettisoned the Spanish empire; and enter the European war “to make the world safe for democracy.” This “moral narcissism,” wrote were ready, in 1861, to guarantee slavery in the South as bait for a return to the Union. It is forgotten that in July 1861, both houses of Congress, by an almost waged not to interfere with the institutions of any state but only to maintain the Union It is forgotten that the Emancipation Proclamation ... was limited and
so they are paid a premium for private-sector work.” His third reason: the EuropeanUnion, which Salin has opposed as bureaucratic and centralist, at least has the good
El conservadurismo moderno, en Estados Unidos y Europa, está confundido y distorsionado. Bajo la influencia de la democracia representativa y con la transformación de Estados Unidos y Europa en democracias de masas tras la Primera Guerra Mundial, el conservadurismo fue en el nuevo credo conservador: A la luz de la amenaza representada por la Unión Soviética, «nosotros [los nuevos conservadores] tenemos que aceptar el Gran
Benjamin Franklin was the first American to envision and propose a voluntary union of the British American colonies. His plan was offered in a letter sent to his of the Revolution, expressed equal concern for the effects of possible large scale European colonization in the new American republic. He equated political unity with
distinguishing mark of American education; it was called “the American system” by Europeans. The texts were substitutes for well-trained teachers; in some parts of the students for colleges and universities concentrated on classical studies and European history.” But as the 1890s dawned, the “public high schools” for the first Army of the Republic, a veterans’ organization for soldiers who had fought in the Union Army during the US Civil War, had formed a “school history committee” and had
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