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Jack Wenders quotes for TEA Party Day

Jack would have loved participating in today’s TEA Party. Here are some Jack Wenders’ quotes for today. Democracy means you have a right to vote in the public sector, freedom means you, alone, have the right to determine the terms of your interactions with others (through voluntary and non...

Posted to Right Mind (Weblog) by Right-Mind on 04-15-2009
Socialism Is Dead, Collectivism Isn't

The following article by Dr. Jack Wenders (Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of Idaho) ran in the Moscow-Pullman Daily News back on 7 March 1993. This article was labeled “ Socialism Is Dead, Collectivism Isn't ”. It’s still as timely today as it was 15 years ago. Socialism...

Posted to Right Mind (Weblog) by Right-Mind on 10-25-2008
Keim to resign as chamber director: Search for new director will begin immediately

It’s hard to hold onto a Chamber of Commerce Director in a town that is anti-business. As reported in today’s edition of the Moscow-Pullman Daily News . Darrell Keim has resigned as executive director of the Moscow Chamber of Commerce . His last day is Oct. 31. "He just decided to resign...

Posted to Right Mind (Weblog) by Right-Mind on 10-25-2008
2006 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA)

Eduwonkette has a post about the “2006 Programme for International Student Assessment” (PISA) results for math. Again, this is not good news at all. People keep saying that regardless of how poor the average US student is, the “cream of the crop” in the US is better than in other...

Posted to Moscow Education (Idaho) (Weblog) by Right-Mind on 08-08-2008
MSD's 18-Year Trend

I took Jack Wenders’ data and updated it from the Idaho State School Finance Data and Statistics website. Here’s the good, the bad, and the ugly. Enrollment is down 15% Spending is up 110% Staffing is up 13% The ratio of MSD expenditure to inflation-adjusted enrollment is a factor of 2.7...

Posted to Moscow Education (Idaho) (Weblog) by Right-Mind on 10-30-2007
Education Opportunity Tax Credit Bill for Idaho!

Check out the very last paragraph: Henry Kulczyk introduced the Education Opportunity Tax Credit Bill! If you can break the monopoly hold that the government schools have over parents by virtue of taxing them out of alternative educational choices, you will see education explode in the USA. This is a...

Posted to Moscow Education (Idaho) (Weblog) by Right-Mind on 08-02-2007
Trade with China: No Protectionist Policies!

If Jack Wenders were still alive, his signature would have been on this petition. There’s a “who’s who” of famous economists on this petition. As it is, only three professors from UI have signed this, and only two from Boise State. Hoover_WSJ.pdf (205 KB) Click the image below...

Posted to Right Mind (Weblog) by Right-Mind on 07-31-2007
On the Anniversary of Milton Friedman’s Birthday

Today would have been Milton Friedman’s 95 th birthday. Various organizations and individuals across Idaho are planning to celebrate in different ways. The following is from R. Ashley Lyman , Professor of Economics at the University of Idaho’s College of Business & Economics. On this...

Posted to Right Mind (Weblog) by Right-Mind on 07-31-2007
History's bloodiest siege used human heads as cannonballs

Here is a quick read on the Knights of Malta and the turning of Suleiman 's army. It is pushing a new novel. From the U.K. Daily Mail : A hot and fetid June night on the small Mediterranean island of Malta, and a Christian sentry patrolling at the foot of a fort on the Grand Harbour had spotted something...

Posted to Right Mind (Weblog) by Right-Mind on 07-07-2007
Enrollment decline spurs decrease in staffing

In today’s article in the LMT , notice the difference between how LSD and MSD handle declining enrollment. LSD is talking about decreasing the number of teachers via attrition (the right way to do cut-backs, by the way). Instead, MSD increases its staffing . Back in 2005, Jack Wenders wrote: Between...

Posted to Moscow Education (Idaho) (Weblog) by Right-Mind on 03-13-2007

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