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Trimming the Fat From America's Wasteful Health Care System
Budget hawks in Congress talk a great deal about health care waste. Where does it come from?
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Budget hawks in Congress talk a great deal about health care waste. Where does it come from?
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This antiquated model is the culprit behind exponential health-care cost growth.
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Allowing nurses to act as primary-care providers will increase coverage and lower health-care costs. So why is there so much opposition from physicians?
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Whatever the Supreme Court decides about the individual mandate, the main battle remains to be fought: how to rein in the grotesque costs of the current system.
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The consensus is clear: America's school bureaucracy rots the quality of public education. Here's how we can move forward and reform the system.
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In the last decade, the Canadian province dramatically improved its education system to become one of the best in the world. Its success can provide a blueprint for U.S. reform.
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81 percent of the nation's electorate believe education bureaucracy needs systemic reforms
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The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act has helped millions of children. It has also bogged down the courts and spawned a whole industry based on paranoia.
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As the chancellor of New York City's public schools explains, graduating from high school is not necessarily the same as being ready for college.
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The co-founder of the Knowledge Is Power Program explains how charter schools may solve bureaucratic red tape in the American school system.
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Today's mandates for special-needs students set schools up for lawsuits, conflict with No Child Left Behind requirements, and waste taxpayers' money. Here are some alternatives.
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Governors and presidents are no better suited to run schools than they are to run construction sites, and it's time our education system reflected that fact.
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Why do we keep returning to ideas that have been proven not to work?
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Previous attempts have only piled more money on the heap of a broken system. We need transformative changes, not additive ones.
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Mandates have tied down educators' hands for too long. Maybe we should re-examine the expectations of what schools should even accomplish in the first place.
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Educators spend most of their time distanced from their colleagues. Instead of forcing them to compete with each other, we should help them find new ways to work together.
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Schools are controlled by the government, but they serve specific communities with niche needs. How can education be publicly funded but privately managed?
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Education leaders often act lazily, blaming union contracts and federal regulation rather than confronting the problems they have the capacity to solve.
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The law may be outdated, but it's not unsalvageable.
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We ask teachers for higher student achievement, but we don't trust them with the authority to make meaningful changes.
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