by Dan Mitchell | Jan 25, 2022 | Blogs, Education
When contemplating the issue of school choice, it’s most important to focus on how we can improve educational outcomes, particularly for children from low-income communities. But, as a fiscal economist, I can’t help thinking about how school choice is...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 13, 2021 | Blogs, Education
I wrote two days ago about how the Supreme Court will be ruling in the next few months on a very important school-choice case, involving whether state and local governments should be allowed to discriminate against religious schools. As part of that column, I...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 12, 2021 | Blogs, Education
I don’t like Joe Biden being a lackey of the teacher unions, and I think the entire Department of Education should be eliminated. That being said, intervention from Washington is the not the main cause of America’s education problems. The real...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 30, 2021 | Blogs, Education
The most powerful argument for school choice is that children from poor families will be more likely to get a high-quality education. After all, these are the kids most likely to be trapped in failing government schools. But there are lots of secondary...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 12, 2021 | Blogs, Education
Sometimes Bill Maher, the host of Real Time on HBO, says smart things and sometimes he says not-so-smart things. His recent monologue on the “college scam” was an example of the former. It’s almost as if he was channeling Professor Daniel...
