by Dan Mitchell | Apr 20, 2026 | Blogs, Economics, Education
I’ve written a four-part series (here, here, here, and here) warning people not to trust economists, and I even wrote a semi-satirical column asking whether economists are “loathsome” people. Moreover, I wrote that taxpayers should not...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 18, 2026 | Blogs, Education
One of the most heartening developments this decade (other the the Milei revolution in Argentina) has been the spread of school choice. In just the past few years, I’ve written about choice spreading to (or getting expanded in) West Virginia, Arizona,...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 19, 2025 | Blogs, Education, States
Back in January, I shared a “Feel-Good” map from the American Legislative Exchange Council showing how school choice was spreading around the country. Today, let’s review another feel-good map, in this case from EdChoice’s newest...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 11, 2025 | Blogs, Education, Government Spending
The United States has a big problem. In recent years, I’ve looked at how two cities (Los Angeles and Chicago) dramatically boosted spending on government schools, yet in both cases educational outcomes declined. I also wrote about similar evidence, on a...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 19, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy, Education
Let’s start today’s column with this reminder from John Stossel that federal involvement in education has produced bad outcomes and that the Department of Education should be abolished. The good news is that President Trump does not like that bureaucracy. He’s...
