I am a beltway bandit, and I literally laughed out loud at 1) while I sat at my desk and enjoyed my breakfast (no scores to check yet). I can assure all of you that my firm need not exist. I can also assure all of you that no amount of money will ever satiate the beast. Not only is the ratchet effect a very real thing, but these agencies will never question their efficiency when a cry for more funds shirks all responsibility for sub par results (take public schools for example). Unlike the misleading statistics that place our healthcare system in the lower throngs of the industrialized world, there is nothing misleading about the ineffectiveness of our public schools (which are the most expensive in the industrialized world, per capita). When ones framework is totally off, they are searching for solutions in all of the wrong places. Just like Picketty.
I think a flipped classroom is less about how the students receive the lecture material and more about when. Lectures and readings at home, homework/problem sets in class. They still have to care, though
Does not “__ are exploited” beg the question?