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DanThompsonIdeas Podcasts
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 conservativ…
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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, th…
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