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I can't help but feel that casting the question so narrowly is a dis-service to the larger problem of how to improve education. Tangible rewards programs are really experiments in what approaches improve results. The healthy approach to improvement is that MANY THINGS should be tried in many places. Some of those things will fail, others not have much of an effect, and others improve the situation to varying extents. Remember, mistakes lead to experience, and experience leads to wisdom. There is no other path than to try many things, make some mistakes, and get wiser!

posted 3 years, 9 months ago
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This is really simple...

What Oregon has been doing only works during good economic times. The rest/most of the time, we have a very hard time funding everything that should be funded in this state. Save your arguments about spending too much on this or too much on that... there isn't enough to go around no matter what your priorities happen to be.

That said, we need an integrated, stable system of taxation, and a sales tax should be part of such a system.

posted 4 years, 2 months ago
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