Economic Scene - Study Rethinks Importance of Kindergarten Teachers - NYTimes.com

Mr. Chetty and his colleagues -- one of whom, Emmanuel Saez, recently won the prize for the top research economist under the age of 40 -- estimate that a standout kindergarten teacher is worth about $320,000 a year. That's the present value of the additional money that a full class of students can expect to earn over their careers. This estimate doesn't take into account social gains, like better health and less crime.

economist gets it right!

"Resonance is the reply from the unknown... Unleash the opera of phenomena." W.A. Mathieu

Thar she blows!

17 years old, with my highschool friends Donny and Bill; Don borrows his mother's car, and we go to see our first (my first, anyway) porn film at a drive-in.  All about some ladies on a boat with a bunch of guys.

I love the smell of roast chicken in the morning!

In fact, if only real ale, real cider and organic wines were permitted to be sold. I don't say that simply because the first is my preference. There are good reasons why you can't get too rowdy on them and so they encourage the behaviour that they claim to prefer.

but too many high st pubs are owned by high volume low quality teenage booze-a-thon chains and so there isn't a chance that good behaviour could be encouraged or rewarded.

keep to the Fen Causeway

The fact that it was an idiotic policy, was known to be an idiotic policy, even then is neither here nor there. Obama got his war on and he is Lyndon Johnston.

However, is it possible to be a peace President in a country where the military industrial complex has such deep pockets and can buy such overwhelming influence ?

keep to the Fen Causeway

There are those who point out that he is a dozen or more approval points above where Reagan was in a similar economic horror, and others who will point out that he always said that Afghanistan is a righteous war.

But here they are, putting billions of more into the madness without any chance of any other solution somewhere down the line than where they are now--calling it victory and saying let's take care of home.

Never underestimate their intelligence, always underestimate their knowledge.

Frank Delaney ~ Ireland

What Obama will be remembered for is, 1.) being the first black president, and 2.) socialized medicine. The importance of the current wars in the Middle East will fade into insignificance as time goes on.

Consider, for example, the French Indochina War, 1946-1954, over 500,000 dead. Completely overwhelmed in history by the American version of war in Vietnam.

But wasn't "from the depths of hell, I stab at thee" Khan's line and not Picard's

keep to the Fen Causeway

It's hopeless. We might as well start speaking pig latin.

After World War 1, some towns in France set up pacifist war memorials. Instead of commemorating the glorious dead, these memorials denounce war with figures of grieving widows and children rather than soldiers. Such memorials provoked anger among veterans and the military in general. The most famous is at Gentioux-Pigerolles in the department of Creuse. Below the column which lists the name of the fallen, stands an orphan in bronze pointing to an inscription `Maudite soit la guerre' (Cursed be war). Feelings ran so high that the memorial was not officially inaugurated until 1990 and soldiers at the nearby army camp were under orders to turn their heads when they walked past. Another such memorial is in the small town of Équeurdreville-Hainneville (formerly Équeurdreville) in the department of Manche. Here the statue is of a grieving widow with two small children.^[1][2]