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Against education subsidies
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...
View ArticleThe chloroformed mind: the case against teaching math
Peter Gray has a fascinating piece in Psychology Today arguing, quite counter-intuitively, that in order to improve math scores we should stop teaching math – at least at the elementary level. He gives...
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Open education vs. Texas Board of Education
Ali Frick worries that California isn’t doing enough to provide the yin to Texas’s crazy yang when it comes to textbook adoption by the rest of the country. Apparently, California isn’t too worried...
View ArticlePoverty and education values
Jamelle Bouie, writing at his guest-blogging digs, makes some very good points about poverty and stereotypes in response to this piece by Nick Kristof. Here’s Kristof: There’s an ugly secret of global...
View ArticleThe Washington Examiner blog
My first post is up at the Washington Examiner’s Opinion Zone blog. I talk about Chris Christie’s fight against the too-powerful New Jersey Education Association. I walk a fine line on education...
View ArticleEducation and the architecture of choice
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 is at least partly because...
View ArticleFirst-hired, last-fired
Ezra Klein makes a good point about the ‘first-hired, last-fired’ rule governing most public school systems. In most unionized public-school systems, tenure and seniority are the primary considerations...
View ArticleMerit pay and teacher evaluations are important and difficult
I should clarify my thoughts on both merit pay and seniority. Regarding merit pay, it is very difficult to accurately measure a teacher’s success (as it is difficult to accurately measure a student’s...
View ArticleTeachers, leave those kids alone
The indomitable James Poulos, writing from his new perch at the excellent Ricochet blog, links to this frightening New York Times piece: But increasingly, some educators and other professionals who...
View ArticleSchool choice in the Republic of Georgia
Rick Hess is back from a tour de force of the Georgian school system which, he notes, has fully embraced school choice: Saakashvili and his libertarian-leaning allies took school choice seriously when...
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