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  • Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?

    06/07/2010 9:14:33 PM PDT · by Let's Roll · 20 replies · 80+ views
    Opinion Journal ^ | June 8, 2010 | Daniel B. Klein
    Who is better informed about the policy choices facing the country—liberals, conservatives or libertarians? According to a Zogby International survey that I write about in the May issue of Econ Journal Watch, the answer is unequivocal: The left flunks Econ 101. Zogby researcher Zeljka Buturovic and I considered the 4,835 respondents' (all American adults) answers to eight survey questions about basic economics. We also asked the respondents about their political leanings: progressive/very liberal; liberal; moderate; conservative; very conservative; and libertarian.
  • Local News SV fifth-grader on mission to help children in Africa

    04/23/2006 8:44:34 AM PDT · by SandRat · 2 replies · 176+ views
    SIERRA VISTA — Perhaps you were at Wal-Mart in Sierra Vista on Saturday and bought a cookie, or contributed some food or supplies to the children who were out front holding a bake sale and collecting items to ship to schoolkids in Africa. If so, good for you. This is the backstory. A few months ago, Heather Hunter had a moment of clarity. The fifth-grader at Huachuca Mountain School was struck by an article in her Weekly Reader that described health and living conditions in some of the most desperate Third-World areas. “The kids in Africa don’t have that much,”...