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The former secretary of labor debunks one of the longest running myths about higher education 
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Regular readers know that I sometimes mock “very serious people” — politicians and pundits who solemnly repeat conventional wisdom that sounds tough-minded and realistic. The trouble is that sounding serious and being serious are by no means the same thing, and some of those seemingly tough-minded positions are actually ways to dodge the truly hard issues.
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Getting anything done generally requires the collaboration of people who do different kinds of work, and whose various kinds of work has shaped various kinds of thinking. It calls for some kind of translation or code switching.
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Economist dings Bush and other Republicans for empty rhetoric about inequality
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When Wolfgang Lehmann started university in Germany in the 1980s, he felt like he didn't belong. As the son of a tradesman and a letter carrier, Lehmann was the first to go onto higher education in his family. But despite hard work, financial stress forced him to drop out in his first year.
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