Extreme Wisdom Posts
Reposting my “Government Education Complex” piece
November 12, 2013 By Bruno Behrend
I doubt if I was the first person to use the phrase “Government-Education Complex,” but I use it often to describe the current education system. Others have clearly started to pick up on the meme, which is good. A friend of mine in Indiana emailed me and asked me to define it for him. So [...]
Fisking Allison Benedikt
August 29, 2013 By Bruno Behrend
I haven’t posted to here in ages, since I basically get more traffic and eyeballs on Facebook. That said, I felt the need to put this article/post on a blog post so I could link to it. Here is an article posted by one Allison Benedikt, who is editor of some section of Slate. I [...]
District Dismantlement moves to Philly
April 30, 2012 By Bruno Behrend
We are beginning to see the benefits of the New Orleans experiment in disempowering school district bureaucrats and breaking up the large districts. It is time for Rahm Emanuel to consider the same solutions for Chicago’s failing and bloated infrastructure. Phila. School District plan would dismantle central office, close schools “What we do know through [...]
Dismantle the large districts first…
April 28, 2012 By Bruno Behrend
Then dismantle the smaller ones. When the Washington Post starts writing editorials like this, it can’t be long before more liberals start to see the light on education. The Big Easy’s school revolution But what really distinguishes New Orleans is how government has redefined its role in education: stepping back from directly running schools and [...]
The “Human Toll” indeed
April 28, 2012 By Bruno Behrend
Rich Miller posted some legislator’s comment on the “Human Toll” of the upcoming budget cuts. It detailed all of the pain that would be generated from some of the cuts to Medicaid that are being discussed. The comment that I placed on this post is below. Some time around to 2005, I questioned former Rep. [...]
Best. Econ. Videos. Ever.
April 28, 2011 By Bruno Behrend
The first one of these can be found on their site, or on YouTube. It is funny and enlightening. This one, shown below, should be sent to your liberal and moderate friends far and wide.
Bruno Behrend on WPWR
April 11, 2011 By Bruno Behrend
The video is of appearance on WPWR’s (Channel 50) “Perspective” program a few months ago. You may be interested in the other 3 guests, as they make the conventional case for dumping more money into a failed education system. If not, my stint starts at the 11:22 mark. The Latest News On School Reform and [...]
Two videos to help win the budget debate
April 5, 2011 By Bruno Behrend
It’s a testament to the slow witted nature of the Republicans that they haven’t found a way to run this ad across the country. It makes the case for cuts so clearly that only the most partisan person could deny its truth. Let the sheer magnitude of the problem do the heavy lifting. Next up, [...]
Public Unions – Engines of unspeakable greed
February 22, 2011 By Bruno Behrend
Read this article to understand how this cancer has metastasized into our entire body politic. When they ask you how you can use such harsh rhetoric, tell them that “pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered,”
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