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March 22, 2011

Ask a Scholar: Who Pays for America's Health Care?

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How much of health care in the United States is funded by the government?

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March 21, 2011

Ask a Scholar: State Discount Rates

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Why are states allowed to use an 8% discount rate as compared to the private sector that uses a 5% discount rate?

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December 6, 2010

Ask a Scholar: Interest Rates on Government Debt

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Why the low interest rates on government debt?

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November 23, 2009

Dispositions Back in the News

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Katherine Kersten brings back an old topic on this blog: dispositions theory in education. There's a new design of teacher education at the University of Minnesota, she says: The initiative is......

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October 9, 2009

Not New, Just Sad

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Ron Lipsman writes at The American Thinker on the life of a conservative faculty member. Unlike some, he came to the university (he does not identify his institution) as a liberal but became conserv......

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