Opinion Forum

How To Teach Students to Cheat

July 7th, 2011

By Dan Miller This article reports that there’s something rotten in Atlanta: Award-winning gains by Atlanta students were based on widespread cheating by 178 named teachers and principals, said Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal on Tuesday. His office released a report from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation that names 178 teachers and principals – 82 of […]

Articles written by Dan Miller
Tags: bonuses, cheating, CRCT, NCLB, rewards, students, teachers, tests
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Free Market Compensation

February 11th, 2010

By Tom Carter The President is taking incoming fire from the liberal left on recent comments he made regarding the bonuses of a couple of Wall Street CEOs. When asked about the bonuses of the CEO of JPMorgan Chase ($17 million) and the CEO of Goldman Sachs ($9 million), he praised both as “savvy businessmen” and […]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: bonuses, compensation, free market, left, liberals, politicians, salaries
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Bonuses and Mexican Trucks

March 21st, 2009

Charles Krauthammer’s column in The Washington Post yesterday was typically succinct on two major issues the Obama Administration and Congress are busily making a mess of — the AIG bonuses and NAFTA-required provisions for Mexican trucks to operate in the U.S. The column begins: A $14 trillion economy hangs by a thread composed of (a) […]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: bonuses, Congress, NAFTA, Obama, trucks
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