It should be required reading for anyone inclined to think that economic history is bunk.

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Perkins told Dunn that it should be required reading for Hewlett-Packard employees.

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It should be required reading for journalists and politicians.

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We should actually be reading it in an entirely different one.

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When Mr Bush signed NCLB a decade ago, with support from both sides of the aisle, it decreed that 100% of students should be reading and doing mathematics at the appropriate level for their ages by 2014.

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You should not have to do this much reading on an infographic, or at the very least it should be legible at a level in which you can take in most of the graphic.

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So if you see an article or post on this issue that you think people should be reading or debating, send it my way.

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"It's very disappointing as the Abbey quarter should be a jewel in Reading's crown, " he said of the funding refusal.

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And because they shy away from reading, it is likely that they are missing the powerful lessons they should be learning from our history.

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