Edward Glaeser: Republicans Must Embrace Education, Not Tax Cuts

Bloomberg:

The Republican presidential debates have been replete with discussions about our economic future, but to listen to the candidates you’d think that the biggest problem is an onerous U.S. tax code.

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Comments

[sensimilla]

04:54 PM on 10/25/2011

Well, CONservatives need to first address their ignorance, myopia, selfishness and greed. THEN they can address their lack of caring about education and other middle class values.

[dmsdzinr]

04:36 PM on 10/25/2011

Especially in that they need to at least TRY and get smarter sometime.

[Caseybug]

02:23 PM on 10/25/2011

Why does John always look like he has Irritable Bowel Syndrome?

[lbc-clb]

02:16 PM on 10/25/2011

Republicans do so much better with an uneducated public!

[OnandUpwards2011]

02:14 PM on 10/25/2011

The biggest problem America has is that across all key social areas:

Education
Health
Penal System
Justice System

We have allowed the corporate agenda of profit maximization to become the first item on the agenda not realizing that in areas such as education that are other key performance indicators that come into play and are far more important than profit or even cost.

In areas of education, it's about cost effectiveness. Even if an approach seems to be very expensive, the qualitative benefits may outweigh the initial high costs.

The other frustrating thing is that people assume that when education is handled by the goverment, it is less efficient. It would shock people to see the extent of waste in the private sector.

Leave corporations out of these areas, it becomes expensive and not cost effective for the end customer.

[MadAppraiser]

02:08 PM on 10/25/2011

Utilizing mathematics test scores as the rationalization for the bankrupting of America for placing an African American is the White House is pathetic! I am not excusing the cabinet appointments, and the prioritization of presidential agendas.

[MadAppraiser]

03:19 PM on 10/25/2011

Utilizing mathematic­s test scores as the rationaliz­ation for the bankruptin­g of America for placing an African American in the White House is pathetic!

[jsgaetano]

02:05 PM on 10/25/2011

The Goop's entire political future relies on destroying education, not creating it. "Learnin Makes Libruulz", as the Red Stater saying goes.

[Peter007]

12:35 PM on 10/25/2011

There are a lot of big companies ( small ones too ) that want a piece of the education budget. The pie is worth billions.

Look for establishment republicans, ( Jeb Bush ) representing these companies ( Cisco ) to begin promoting education spending as a national priority.

Profits will follow................

[realorpretend]

12:25 PM on 10/25/2011

It's very difficult for many people in general to accept the American Education system seeing how it's moved from a regimented fact based system which increased pupils individual intelligence toward a system bent on equalizing everyone's capabilities while increasing societal failures such as feminizing masculinity and sexualizing pre-adolescents.

The centralized planning of the education system is so poor that no wonder the wealthy can attain so many riches, it is because they have the incentive to extract their children from the modern educators and train them amongst true non-unionized teachers.

Thank G-d I didn't go go a public institution.

[radiobob65]

11:30 AM on 10/25/2011

Let the Republicans keep doing what they are doing...I want to look at their stupid faces after the 2012 elections

[marignymitch]

11:20 AM on 10/25/2011

Won't happen. Republicans need uneducated voters to win elections.

[jsgaetano]

02:07 PM on 10/25/2011

Conservatives have been destroying education ever since the Birchers started pushing their highly successful home-indoctrination programs. Reality is NOT ALLOWED in conservative homes!

[Jeff Parfitt]

11:18 AM on 10/25/2011

Talk to any education professional and they'll all tell you roughly the same thing. The reason the GOP will never focus on education is because they look at government education as a waste of money, since it doesn't generate immediate, transferrable, or measurable returns for a private business. They reject the idea that the betterment of society is in itself a valuable return on the investment in education by government, and so they seek to relegate the costs of education to private business who will proft from it.

Education for profit, which is the conclusion for GOPers and their policies, will become like medical care for profit: lackluster care that minimizes cost and maximizes profits; people being given less-than-adequate or no services when they can't afford it; rising costs for falling quality; and deregulation in order to maximize profits for the private sector businesses that will, by this point, have a monopoly on our future.

[olephart]

11:03 AM on 10/25/2011

This article is laughable. The GOP has no interest in the overall well-being of this Nation; their only concerns are dictated to them by their wealthy corporate masters. If it doesn’t benefit the Forbes 400 it doesn’t exist. Furthermore education and critical thinking are their enemies. Educated people with sufficient cognitive abilities don’t support them. Their support comes from those lacking mental acuity. Simple observation bears this out. Education and universal prosperity can only be achieved in spite of the GOP not with it.

[nsmavrik]

10:23 AM on 10/25/2011

Oh please. Look at Boehner's face from the picture that was posted with this story above. Does this umpa-lumpa look like he wants to embrace education?

[BBackSoon]

10:13 AM on 10/25/2011

Just because they Must doesn't mean they will.