by Dan Mitchell | May 20, 2025 | Blogs, Education
I’ve written about school choice in Canada, Sweden, Chile, the Netherlands, and Denmark (as well as the shift toward choice in several American states), but I’ve never seen any sort of global ranking. But now I have. I’m at...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 18, 2025 | Blogs, Education
I admit to being confused. Should my feel-good map of the year be the one involving the spread of school choice or the ones involving the shift to lower tax rates? For today, it’s going to be school choice. Here’s a map from Corey DeAngelis...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 22, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy, Education
Today’s column is about shutting down the Department of Education. But I’m not going to explain why that should happen since I have already done that (once in 2015 and twice (here and here) in 2022). Instead I’m going to explain how it should...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 16, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy
It’s not quite the “Chart of the Century,” which captures the perverse impact of government intervention, but Andrew Coulson’s chart on government schools is one of the most powerful visuals I’ve ever seen. Unfortunately, he passed away about 10...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 17, 2025 | Blogs, Education
Arizona has been a national leader in school choice, ranking at or near the top according to both the Education Freedom Report Card and the Index of State Education Freedom. Here’s a video showing how choice is giving parents better...
