by Dan Mitchell | Nov 22, 2019 | Blogs, Education
So far, our acknowledgement of National Education week has addressed the following topics. Part I looked at the deteriorating performance of government schools. Part II reviewed the evidence for school choice. Part III explained how government subsidies make higher...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 21, 2019 | Blogs, Education
The worst policy research I’ve ever seen, over nearly four decades in the field, is the OECD’s grotesquely dishonest data on poverty (it even motivated a special page to acknowledge “poverty hucksters”). But this video from Andrew Biggs suggests that the Economic...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 20, 2019 | Big Government, Blogs, Education
As part of National Education Week, I’ve looked at the deterioration of K-12 government schools and also explained why a market-based choice system would be a better alternative. The good news is that we have a choice system for higher education. Students can choose...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 19, 2019 | Blogs, Education
School choice is based on the simple premise that we’ll get better results if school budgets are distributed to parents so they can pick from schools that compete for their kids (and dollars). The current system, by contrast, is an inefficient monopoly that largely...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 18, 2019 | Blogs, Education
According to the union bosses at the National Education Association, November 18-22 is National Education Week and a “wonderful opportunity to celebrate public education.” I care about facts and I care about kids, and all the evidence shows that government schools do...
