(There’s a fairly lengthy thought-piece introduction here. If you’re simply trawling for education policy arguments, make like a choose-your-own-adventure reader and turn directly to Section II.) I. One of the best parts about being...
Hayek wrote, of the economy, Fundamentally, in a system in which the knowledge of the relevant facts is dispersed among many people, prices can act to coordinate the separate actions of different people in...
So I’ve been blogging at Forbes and spending a lot of my time talking about teachers and how teachers are under a sustained ideological assault. However, one thing I will never blog about is...
Shameless self-promotion alert: I have a new blog at Forbes on education policy and education reform. My long introduction post is up this morning. In it, I offer a critique of the top-down reforms...
All the bad crazy out of Wisconsin lately lines up really well with the book I’m reading at the moment, The Death and Life of the Great American School System by Diane Ravitch. Ravitch...
I had trouble reading Radley Balko’s article on the saga of Cory Maye. I picture this young man in his quiet home with his 18-month-old daughter asleep in the other room and I immediately...
I want to talk about school choice again, because it’s one of those topics that I have a really hard time coming to terms with, and it struck me over the weekend that this...
I have three posts up already at the Washington Examiner’s Opinion Zone Blog. First, I tackle the New Jersey teachers’ unions and their resistance to any and all reforms in public education in that...
Kyle writes: [F]or decades, we’ve allowed students in need to get federally subsidized loans to attend both public and private colleges and universities. Some states, even provide scholarships and grants that can be used...
Rick Hess makes a great deal of sense in his critique of Diane Ravitch (and this bit echoes what Mark Thompson has pushed in the comments, arguments I also find compelling): A lack of...
[updated] Here’s the part that gets me – if, as is assumed in this critique (an assumption I largely agree with by the way) that it is not possible to adequately measure performance via...
By chance, I happened to be driving and listening to NPR today when Diane Ravitch had a guest slot on the Diane Rehm show. I only caught parts of the program, but what I...
Lots of interesting feedback on my last post. Kevin Drum and Ryan Avent both focus on the notion that the sort of choice Bramwell describes is only available to higher-income families, leaving poor Americans...
Arizona is considering selling off its prisons as part of a larger process of balancing the budget. Even death row would be privately run. The state government predicts the move could save them $100...
So Dan Miller critiqued me and conservatives in general for not talking about health policy enough, and he’s right. We haven’t. Part of this is because when it comes to government planning there is...
This depressing Los Angeles Times story inspired a pretty interesting debate on teacher unions over at the American Scene. In comments, Freddie mounts a persuasive defense of union-backed tenure for professional educators, arguing that...
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