on a typical day 11% of teachers are absent in Peru, 16% are absent in Bangladesh, 27% in Uganda and 25% in India.Jay Schalin on “the most recent incident involving the UNC-Chapel Hill student organization Youth for Western Civilization (YWC) and a coalition of radical leftist groups.”
…In India, where a quarter of the teachers are absent on any particular day, only about half of those present are actually teaching…
The problem is not low salaries…
Teachers are literate and they vote so they are a powerful political force especially where teacher unions are strong… As a result, it's virtually impossible to fire a teacher for absenteeism.
Carol D. Leonnig on a "research" institute at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania:
the John P. Murtha Institute for Homeland Security…Megan McArdle:
raised questions among watchdog groups and outside critics about using taxpayer money to fund projects that appear to mostly benefit Murtha loyalists.
"He who pays the most homage to Murtha is the one who gets the money," said Cathy Wentzel, who managed a research group linked to the Murtha Institute and left when her boss was fired…
Jeffrey Crane, its director from 2006 until last month, said the institute for years served as a "paper institute" with no clear mission. Crane was rebuffed by the IUP administration when he shared his concerns about contractor billing practices on some projects that the Murtha Institute was ostensibly overseeing…
When you have only one chance to get it right, you tend to open up your wallet and pray. So one-shot deals are very, very expensive—a logic that prevails with weddings, funerals, and college diplomas.
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