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A Top-quartile Teacher Will Increase The Performance Of Their Class - Based On Test Scores - By Over 10 Percent In A Single Year. ... That Means That If The Entire U.s., For Two Years, Had Top-quartile Teachers, The Entire Difference Between Us And Asia Would Go Away.

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A Top-quartile Teacher Will Increase The Performance Of Their Class - Based On Test Scores - By Over 10 Percent In A Single Year. ... That Means That If The Entire U.s., For Two Years, Had Top-quartile Teachers, The Entire Difference Between Us And Asia Would Go Away.

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3d Is A Way Of Organizing Things, Particularly As We're Getting Much More Media Information On The Computer, A Lot More Choices, A Lot More Navigation Than We've Ever Had Before.

[aids ] Is Not A Short-term Emergency But It Is Something That, Just Like Smallpox Was Many Decades Ago, We Should Aim For Complete Eradication.

Software Substitution, Whether It's For Drivers Or Waiters Or Nurses ... It's Progressing. ... Technology Over Time Will Reduce Demand For Jobs, Particularly At The Lower End Of Skill Set. ... 20 Years From Now, Labor Demand For Lots Of Skill Sets Will Be Substantially Lower. I Don’t Think People Have That In Their Mental Model.

This Is Not About Trade, No One Is A Stronger Supporter Of Capitalism And Trade Than I Am. This Is About Sovereignty And Whether A Country Has The Right To Set Its Own Public Health Policies.

Measles Will Always Show You If Someone Isn't Doing A Good Job On Vaccinations. Kids Will Start Dying Of Measles.

The Government's Ability To Select Scientists And Pick Things That Are Fairly Strange, Because Politicians Don't Like Failures. They're Only In Office A Short Term, And Many Of These Things Take A Long Time.

R&d Generally Has Been A Bipartisan Thing, Because In The It Space, In The Medical Space, The U.s., The Benefits To Ourselves And The World And Our Economy Have Been Very, Very Clear. I'm Hopeful We Can Make A Very Strong Case There. Energy Is Actually Harder; It Takes More Time To Get A Product, But If You Do It's A Very, Very Big Market And The Constraints Of Doing That In A Clean Way Are More Obvious All The Time.

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