by Dan Mitchell | Jan 22, 2018 | Blogs, Education
I wrote yesterday about the global evidence showing that more money does not improve the lackluster performance of government schools. Those results are not surprising because we see the same thing in the United States. More money is good for the education...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 21, 2018 | Blogs, Education
I’ve written several times about how dumping more money into government schools is not a recipe for improved education. Indeed, I would argue that this chart is the most powerful image I’ve ever seen. More and more money gets plowed into the system (even after...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 11, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending
Whenever I discuss education policy with one of my leftist friends, it usually follows the same script. They’ll ask whether I want good education for kids. I’ll say yes. They’ll then say we should devote more money to government schools. I then show them this powerful...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 9, 2017 | Blogs, Education, Government Spending, Government Waste
The story of the private sector is that competition generates ever-more output in ways that bring ever-higher living standards to ever-greater numbers of people. By contrast, the story of the government is inefficiency and waste as interest groups figure out how to...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 20, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs, Education, Government Spending
While I have great fondness for some of the visuals I’ve created over the years (especially “two wagons” and “apple harvesting“), I confess that none of my creations have ever been as clear and convincing as the iconic graph on education spending and education...
