Alex Tabarrok quotes from a new paper that he calls “impressive”:
We find that the teacher performance pay program was highly effective in improving student learning. At the end of two years of the program, students in incentive schools performed significantly better than those in comparison schools by 0.28 and 0.16 standard deviations (SD) in math [...]

The Barrister at Maggie’s Farm asks: Why the skepticism about government health care? He answers the question: “because people have no confidence in government entitlement programs”. He explains why:
Social Security - bankrupt
Postal Service - bankrupt
Welfare - had devastating unintended consequences for which the nation still pays and from which the nation continues to suffer (eg [...]

The last three posts clearly demonstrate that we have moved to a post-racial society. Therefore I won’t need to bother posting about racial matters any more.

The video in my last post reminded me of the racism and violence that Asian-Americans must sometimes live with in predominantly black areas. This is a problem ignored by the mass media. Here are the experiences of one Asian man. His welcome to America was not so kind:
At age ten, I immigrated from China to [...]

Tucson, Arizona schools are considering incorporating super-advanced thinking into the administration of schools for pursuing real social justice. This thinking is so advanced that we closed-minded non-lefties will probably completely miss the brilliance of this new idea.
Okay, just kidding. Is this, ah, insane, or what? (via Michelle Malkin)
…The board is calling for a two-tiered [...]

This handy flowchart will help you to figure out the answer.

Some liberals in the US have convinced themselves that there is an emerging tendency toward right wing violence. Never mind that no such violence has occurred. The Tea Party crowd is plenty mad at Democrats, Obama, and the establishment in general - but they aren’t out committing acts of violence.
But it doesn’t really matter [...]

This seems true:
Feminism is the theory that men and women are equal in every respect–except for those in which women are superior. The trick is to interpret every social indicator as though it demonstrates arbitrary male privilege or genuine female superiority.
For example, when studies show that girls perform less well than boys at advanced [...]

The dumbest thing said in the western hemisphere this weekend:
The president of the UN General Assembly, Nicaraguan Miguel D’Escoto, said today in Havana that the Cuban leader, Fidel Castro, is “the best disciple of Jesus.” “Fidel is for me, today, the best disciple of Jesus. I was privileged to be near him, to observe him, [...]