by Dan Mitchell | Feb 9, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Education
In the three previous columns in this series (here, here, and here), we’ve reviewed all sorts of evidence showing that dumping more tax dollars into government schools is not a recipe for better educational outcomes. Instead, our taxes mostly go to...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 31, 2025 | Blogs, Education
Florida ranks #2 in the nation according to Freedom in the 50 States and ranks #3 in the nation according to Economic Freedom of North America. Those are impressive scores, but Florida does even better when looking specifically at...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 7, 2024 | Blogs, Education
Chicago has been in a downward spiral for years, and you can certainly make a strong case that it has America’s worst mayor. It has terrible fiscal policy (which won’t end well), but its education policy is probably even worse. Take a...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 4, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs, Education, Health Care, Welfare and Entitlements
To augment my four-part series on the economics of government spending, here’s a video from Prager University explaining how big government doesn’t work. The video, narrated by Professor Joshua6 Rauh of Stanford, highlights three major types of spending and...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 1, 2024 | Blogs, Education
My favorite education chart was created by the late Andrew Coulson and it shows that massive increases in K-12 education spending have not produced higher test scores. And research has confirmed that...
