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Unintended Consequences in School Accountability Policies
Rajashri Chakrabarti and Noah Schwartz* Over the past two decades, state and federal education policies have tried to hold schools more accountable for educating their students. A common criticism of these policies is that they may induce schools to “game the system” with strategies such as excluding certain types of students from computation of school average test scores.
A Theory of Economics: Here is how the banker's game works
Here is how the banker's game works: 1) Get the government to issue some currency (cash -- paper or reserves at the central bank -- reserves are government issued cash central bank deposits). Government issued cash is around 5% of the currency (money) supply.QuNeo is a different species of pad controller for electronic musicians, DJs, VJs and DIY hackers.
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Evaluating Text Extraction Algorithms | My tech blog.
UPDATE 11/6/2011: Added the summary and the results table Lately I’ve been working on evaluating and comparing algorithms, capable of extractinguseful content from arbitrary html documents. Before continuing I encourage you to pass trough some of my previous posts, just to get a better feel of what we’re dealing with; I’ve written a short overview , compiled a list of resources if you want to dig deeper and made a feature wise comparison of related software and APIs. Summary
Calculated Risk sends us to two papers by Amir Sufi and Atif Mian using county-level data to investigate the causes of the recession.
Demand, Demand, Demand
Casey Mulligan noted Wednesday on Economix that United States spending on food stamps had skyrocketed since the recession began.
United States of Hunger
P2P Theory
Generation Jobless: The Toll on Parents When Kids Return Home
By JOANN S. LUBLIN Mark Ovaska for The Wall Street JournalWhy Americans Won't Do Dirty Jobs
Skinning, gutting, and cutting up catfish is not easy or pleasant work. No one knows this better than Randy Rhodes, president of Harvest Select, which has a processing plant in impoverished Uniontown, Ala.W. Brian Arthur, PARC Visiting Researcher
How Technology is Recreating the 21st-century Economy
Spatial frictions
As of 2008, for the first time in history, more than half of the world’s populations live in cities. Understanding urbanisation and its affect on living standards is key for policymakers looking to make informed decisions in the years to come.Oligarchy, American Style
Anyone who has tracked this issue over time knows what I mean. Whenever growing income disparities threaten to come into focus, a reliable set of defenders tries to bring back the blur.Food
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OccupyWallStreet (OWS)
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