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The Editor’s Podcast: I ❤ Hamilton

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This week, we're giving the regular crew off so we can bring you this special edition of the Ricochet Podcast featuring our entire editorial staff. Troy Senik, Jon Gabriel, Claire Berlinski, Tom Meyer, and Rob Long gather together (well, virtually though the magic of Skype) to opine on Trump and how he harms Jeb's (!) chances at winning the nomination. Also, the future of education, a certain Rico Editor's man crush on Alexander Hamilton, and why Ricochet has become the web's number one venue for janitorial insights.

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  • The King Prawn@TheKingPrawn
    If Perry is 2-3 in your minds, does that put him very solidly in the VP spot? I've thought for a long time that his gift for retail politicking and rumored arm twisting makes him very close to ideal for the spot, especially considering the changes to the office wrought by Dick Cheney.
  • Eugene Kriegsmann@EugeneKriegsmann

    The schools are in a bind largely of their own making. They are talking constantly about "disproportionality", the disproportionate number of minority students who are failing academically. Their answer to it is to water down the curriculum, so that they can achieve equality of outcome by bringing everyone down to the same less than mediocre level.

    For some time they provided advanced fast moving classes for the best students. Unfortunately, those classes were overwhelmingly populated by white and Asian students with a very small representation of blacks and Hispanics. This, in the minds of the critics was just one more example of Disproportionality. The response was a form of Affirmative Action, put less qualified students in with the tops students. However, they couldn't be graded on the same standard as the other students who had actually qualified for the program. They had to be proportionately represented throughout the grade curve.

    Once again you are back in the situation where the best students are being held back, not being pushed as they should be to excel. The only answer really is charter or private schools unaffected by the politics of race and social justice.

    As a long time user of Great Courses, I do think that there is a lot of value in that form of education for the more motivated students.

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