Re: [PEN-L] Subject: college dropout condemns US education

2005-03-01 Thread Doug Henwood
We could do worse than Bill Gates on this issue - unlike the Walton family (nos. 4-8 on the Forbes 400), he's not pushing a voucher/privatization agenda. His stuff on vaccination isn't bad either. And he shut up all those New Economy cheerleaders in the late 1990s, who thought all Africa needed was

Re: [PEN-L] Subject: college dropout condemns US education

2005-03-01 Thread Eubulides
[I'll try to reply to Seth's comments in a later post. I'd only note that Melinda Gates is an economist and that Billsville -Redmond, WA- is loaded with rich libertarians...They are a force to be reckoned with] http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-gates1mar01,0,6675841.s tory COM