by Dan Mitchell | Jan 28, 2021 | Blogs, Education
I have a Bureaucrat Hall of Fame to highlight government employees who have turned sloth and overcompensation into an art form, and I have a Moocher Hall of Fame to illustrate the destructive entitlement mindset that exists when politicians pay...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 18, 2021 | Blogs, Education
Coronavirus has been a dark cloud. But if we want to find a silver lining, the government’s bungled response to the pandemic has exposed some weaknesses in the government school monopoly. And this could mean opportunity for competing structures that can...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 9, 2020 | Blogs, Education
Writing about the failed government education monopoly back in 2013, I paraphrased Winston Churchill and observed that, “never has so much been spent so recklessly with such meager results.” This more-recent data from Mark Perry shows that inflation-adjusted spending...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 19, 2020 | Blogs, Education
I’ve been writing about the benefits of school choice for a long time, largely because government schools are becoming ever-more expensive while produced ever-more dismal outcomes. But even I was surprised to see this tweet, which shows how so many parents in New York...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 9, 2020 | Blogs, Education
I’m a huge fan of school choice. Simply stated, private schools deliver far superior results for children compared to costly and bureaucratic government schools. Moreover, given the way minorities are poorly served by the status quo, school choice should be the civil...
