Brendan's assorted links

[brendan]

Three keys to improving our schools by Jennifer Buckingham
http://www.theage.com.au/news/education-news/three-keys-to-improving-our-schools/2008/04/05/1207249479267.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1

The Fed Gets a New Job Description by ROBERT J. SHILLER
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/06/business/06view.html?_r=2&ex=1365134400&en=a54ef373a2046f2a&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

Starbucks and 'Laissez Faire' By DAVID BOAZ
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120752454414093553.html?mod=opinion_main_commentaries

The Colombia Trade Stakes By CONDOLEEZZA RICE
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120752405599893543.html?mod=opinion_main_commentaries

Note from the dean: Send after U.S. News rankings are published by Gregory M. Stein
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-oped0406rankingsapr06,0,3372512.story

[brendan]

Unis cater mainly to offspring of wealthy
http://www.theage.com.au/news/education-news/beducationb-unis-cater-mainly-to-offspring-of-wealthy/2008/04/15/1208025189619.html

Struggling schools in line for help
http://www.theage.com.au/news/education-news/struggling-schools-in-line-for-help/2008/04/15/1208025189654.html

'Train more graduates, not tradies': uni study
http://www.theage.com.au/news/education-news/train-more-graduates-not-tradies-uni-study/2008/04/15/1208025195870.html

Enough With the Interest Rate Cuts
By MARTIN FELDSTEIN
Mr. Feldstein, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Reagan, is a professor at Harvard and a member of The Wall Street Journal's board of contributors.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120822025943314699.html?mod=opinion_main_commentaries

Congestion taxes
Jeff Zupan is a senior fellow for transportation at the Regional Plan Association — an independent, not-for-profit, regional planning organization which testified to the New York State Assembly in support of congestion pricing.
Todd Litman (founder of the Victoria Transport Policy Institute)
http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/14/what-didnt-we-know-about-congestion-pricing/

Plan to set the price of parking based on market conditions:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/04/14/MNTO104818.DTL

[brendan]

Airlines Are Safer Than Ever
By CLIFFORD WINSTON and ROBERT W. CRANDALL
Messrs. Winston and Crandall are senior fellows in the economic studies program of the Brookings Institution. Mr. Winston is the author of "Government Failure Versus Market Failure" (Brookings Institution Press, 2006).
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120856322751028003.html?mod=opinion_main_commentaries

[brendan]

Children destined to fail without the basics of learning
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23695370-13881,00.html

School result reports backed
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23694593-5017017,00.html

Results back principal's return to instruction
http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/results-back-principals-return-to-instruction/2008/05/09/1210131265814.html

THE AUSTRALIAN ECONOMY: THEN AND NOW
Glenn Stevens, Governor of the RBA
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/files/stevens-15may2008.pdf

[Odette]

Starbucks and 'Laissez Faire' By DAVID BOAZ
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120752454414093553.html?mod=opinion_main_commentaries

Hmm could be used as an example of a laissez faire company... busman students!