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Showing posts with label statistics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label statistics. Show all posts
Stephanie Simon: Why Our Teachers Can't Teach
Long awaited report reveals an ugly truth. The U.S. teacher training system is
badly broken, turning out rookie educators who have little hands-on
experience running classrooms and are quickly overwhelmed by the job,
according to a report released Tuesday by the National Council on Teacher Quality. The review found "an ... MOREVIDEO: Don't Cops Have Better Things To Do
Cops resort to entrapment as a means to boost crime stats.
Gun Crime Has Plunged, But Americans Think It Is Up
Emily Alpert on a Pew Research study. Gun crime has plunged in the United States since its peak in the middle of the 1990s, including gun killings, assaults, robberies and other crimes, two new studies of government data show. Yet few Americans are aware of the dramatic drop, and more than half believe gun crime has risen, according to a ... MOREMona Charen: Sowell Does It Again
Another great insightful read from Tom. I plunged into Thomas Sowell's latest book "Intellectuals and
Race" immediately upon its arrival but soon realized that I needed to slow
down. Many writers express a few ideas with a great cataract of words.
Sowell is the opposite. Every sentence contains at least one insight or
fascinating statistic, frequently ... MOREIf There Is No Inflation, Why Are Prices Up So Much?
by Michael Sivy. Last week, I ran out of ink for my printer and ordered some more online. My computer automatically pulled up the previous order, and I was shocked to see that the price of the ink cartridges I was buying had gone up 25%. To my mind, ink always seems overpriced. Manufacturers sell printers cheaply because they know that they ... MOREThomas Sowell: Economic Mobility
Taking advantage of opportunity. Most people are not even surprised any more when they hear about
someone who came here from Korea or Vietnam with very little money, and
very little knowledge of English, who nevertheless persevered and rose
in American society. Nor are we surprised when their children excel in
school and go on to ... MOREVIDEO: Choose Your Own Crime Stats
EYE-OPENER: Did you know the U.S. crime rate has steadily fallen since 1992?
NRA Membership Has Increased Since Newtown Shootings
by Alexander Abad-Santos. You would think, after a 20-year-old with legal guns killed 20
first-graders in Newtown, Connecticut, that the National Rifle
Association wouldn't be doing too well — what with the initial outcry over its silence and the ensuing outcry over the gun lobby's brief statement late Tuesday. But you would be wrong. Fox News ... MORE
Michael Barone: Mexican Migration May Be Over
A historical view. Is mass migration from Mexico to the United States a thing of the past? At
least for the moment, it is. Last May, the Pew Hispanic Center, in a
study based on U.S. and Mexican statistics, reported that net migration
from Mexico to this country had fallen to zero from 2005 to 2010. Pew
said 20,000 more people moved to Mexico from the ... MOREQuarter-Billion-Dollar Stimulus Creates Just 400 Jobs
by Jim McElhatton. Battery maker A123 Systems
vowed thousands of new jobs when it received a nearly
quarter-billion-dollar stimulus grant in late 2009, but federal
job-tracking figures show only a few hundred positions were created
before the company joined a growing list of federally backed energy
businesses that ended in bankruptcy. ... MORE
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