Look, we think we can go out, trading stocks, and not get killed. His relationship now extends five decades and is the bidding beginning of every new paper coming out was a landmark paper. It was all brandnew stuff. None of it was being applied. The two recently sat down at the school of business, named after david booth, following in 2008. For a wideranging conversation with barry. Masters in business. Barry during your last year at tufts, you worked for harry ernst, who had a side gig running a stock market forecasting service. And you did research for him. What sort of work did you do with this stock Forecasting Research . Eugene the value schemes to beat the market. [laughter] barry and how did that work out . Eugene it worked out fine. [laughter] eugene it didnt work out fine on the other sample. Never did. That was a lesson [indiscernible] things that arent really there. Barry and how did that research into forecasting the stock market, your thinking about whether or not the mark
As you all know education doesnt always grab headlines and that is certainly the case this time around two and that being said, there are consequential issues and big policy ideas that are being talked about as part of these campaign and to help us make sense of whats going on we have a group of panelist with us today already, arne duncan served as secretary of education from 2009 to 2015. I believe he was the ninth secretary and the department history. Hes a managing partner and a nonresidency and dr. John king served as the secretary of education from 2016 till 2017. And doctor king is the president and ceo of the education trust. To help guide our discussion we have alison klein, the assisting editor for education. Her current beat is the workforce issues and for many years shes covered education, and policies in washington and beyond. With that i will welcome the three of you to our stage and headed over to allison. Up applause thanks for joining us im thanks for joining us im happ
Betty ross talks about the 5 billion tax credit scholarship proposal which is pending in congress. Secretary devos is joined by white house advisor Kellyanne Conway at the event hosted by the American Enterprise institute. [applause] thank you. Good morning. Thank you to aei for posting this Important Forum today. Robert, thank you for your hospitality and for a principled conservative leadership, especially now in your new role. Its always a pleasure to be back here with so many friends. Our ideas are advanced by the work of the institute and there are many who worked for the cost of education freedom and for our nations students especially rick so im looking forward to our conversation today. We are here to talk about education freedom scholarships and let me say a few things about our proposal to set the table before our discussion. Heres what it is. A 5 billiondollar annual federal income tax credit for voluntary contributions to 5o1c3 nonprofit organizations that provide scholarsh
Mr. Doar good morning, everybody, and welcome to aei. My name is robert doar and im so pleased to have you all here this morning for this important discussion of education in the United States. We are particularly gratified and happy to have the secretary of education, betsy devos with us, her husband dick, couselor to the president Kellyanne Conway, a great honor to have them all here for this important discussion of a topic thats particularly important to aei and our education policy team. And were also pleased to have, i like to say that aei is a washingtonbased think tank, but were not a washingtonfocused think tank. And so we have three distinguished leaders around the country, from tennessee, arizona and pennsylvania, and they will talk about how some of the issues in washington affect the children and parents in those parts of the country, and really, thats what our discussion is all about. How can we make our schools better. Now, a little bit just to give a sense of how i come
Us, her husband, counsel to the president , Kellyanne Conway. Important to have you all here for a discussion on a topic that is particularly important. Have io pleased to like to say that ai is a washingtonbased think tank, but not a washington focused think tank. From tennessee, from arizona, from pennsylvania, they will talk about how some of the issues we are talking about in washington affect the children and parents of schools in those parts of the country. Really, that is what our discussion is all about, how can we make our schools better . Now, little bit about just to give a sense of how i come to this issue and look at it and why i think it is so important. Some of you may know that i spent 20 years in the social Services Departments of new york state and new york city working on antipoverty programs. I was focused on the various issues with our ways in which we help people get into work and get out of poverty and move up economically. Those things were important. I always k