I think given the wide variation in how schools are run, "accountability" as practiced by NCLB could lead to propagation of good practices for basically the same reason natural selection works for evolution.
How is she on housing?
In fact, it goes back and forth. In DC, some people are trying to make the school board elected again. And no one is suggesting what you would prefer, which is that the schools should be entirely run by professional civil servants.
No the things people push to be separately elected today are more local, like judges or school boards.
My point is that American voters like the idea that people with significant public sector roles are regularly accountable to democratic politics.
I think if you asked them, they would want the positions to be elected instead.
Individual competent civil servants will be popular. But the reforms needed to create the kind of civil service you want are not.
The major challenge to having a professional government in the US is the voters.
Obviously the decline in trust in elite institutions has multiple causes, but one of them is just that our institutions have broadly become less trustworthy, and fixing this will require them to change. @chrislhayes.bsky.social wrote a whole book about this.
The birth rate stabilizing means option 1 or 4 -- if it stabilizes at the current level outside Africa then humanity dies out, if it stabilizes in Africa where it is today then African fertility stays high forever.
I have a particular fondness for Hungary because I spent a formative time studying there. It was just after The Wall came down. I had so many encounters that conveyed a sense of hope for a bright future. I imagine the squares of Budapest feel like that again right now.
HOAs are necessary for multifamily buildings but not for multibuilding developments and should be prohibited for the latter.
No this is wrong; our admin is still on the wrong side but it's clear that protesting them is not the main problem.
Here, where there were major campus protests assaulted by cops, the organizers are now major participants in the No Kings protests where they say broadly similar things.
Why does Rice play Texas?
I don't think Big Bill would want to be called a liberal.
It's a magical world Hobbes, Ol' buddy... ... Let's go exploring!
Sure but it kind of emphasizes the degree to which it's all imadeitup.jpg
Yes that's a different theory, which is basically Will's.
Right the economy is clearly not as good as during booms, but people are more unhappy than they were during previous not-booms. Which is what needs explanation.
Those things are in fact trending higher, in similar amounts adjusted for inflation, to times when people were ok with the economy.
Like, hmmm
Note that this theory is a significant contrast to Will's vibes theory.
Probably no one has proposed that theory yet.
I wish these Epoch reports came with an epistemic status indicator.
The most parsimonious explanation of this is that something changed about the economy in 2020-21 that hasn't changed back and people don't like. My best candidates are "less in person interaction" and "higher nominal prices".
He's telling the people who might suggest people to Trump, for exactly the reason you say.
I mean, he says basically that Trump needs more people like Rubio and Bessent.
Isn't it clearly that he knows that would be better but since it isn't going to happen he's trying to positively influence someone (Wiles?) to potentially improve things?
Need to get them to add the IU bus
Wow, this is how I found out that @transit.app covers Bloomington!