hen--this is the part with the sound of the future in it--he laid out the reasons both parties have failed to push the ball forward. The Democrats fear the teachers unions and the educational establishment. The Republicans are heavily represented in and by suburban and country areas, which tend to have good schools, tend to be happy with them, and are wary of a movement they fear might take something from them. And so the students who need the most help, city kids who would benefit the most from creativity, are held captive to a failed public-education monopoly.
His candor was refreshing. Mr. Giuliani's approach was nonpartisan in the best sense--i.e., not fuzzy but frank. It wasn't Public schools want to be free; it was This is what will help, this is why it isn't happening, this is why we have to make it happen. That didn't sound like the same old same old. It didn't sound like the past.
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There's a lot of news about Bill Gates giving up microsoft to get into the charity business...
Wouldn't he be better staying in the area of his expertise instead of going into something he knows nothing about?
I mean, call centers in the Phlippines will give more wealth than giving money to a corrupt government, and giving loans to entrepeneurs to set up internet cafes will teach computer literacy via game playing much more than boring computers in schools that no one bothers to use...
As for malaria, I'm glad someone is funding research...but you could probably save just as many people by allowing DDT to be sprayed...
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