These days, public investment in education needs to go beyond primary and secondary school.

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He acknowledged the need for effective regulation of Wall Street and other markets, for public investment in education and vowed that he would not support any tax cut that increased deficits.

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Increasing public investment in higher education with the goal of college for everyone in effect, taxpayer-subsidized social promotion is thwarting the operation of the sorting mechanism.

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In this landscape, free public higher ed (God help us), or even renewed public investment in higher education looks like, at worst, government crowding out of innovative models we desperately need, and at best, irrelevant.

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If the combination of high taxes and high public investment in infrastructure and education, say, spurs private investment and raises living standards, that approach gains wider support and is tried elsewhere.

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Wise investment in public education is an absolute must for accelerating business expansion.

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Public education is an investment in human and social capital.

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"There is an urgent need across the board for governments to invest in pre-disaster management, including investment in local capacity such as public education, " he says.

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