by Dan Mitchell | Sep 28, 2013 | Blogs, Education, Society
I’m a big fan of school choice. If we bust up the government education monopoly and create a competitive education market, we’ll get a much better education system at much lower cost. This isn’t just idle theorizing. The evidence shows that competition produces better...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 3, 2013 | Blogs, Education
School choice should be a slam-dunk issue. There’s very powerful evidence that we can provide superior education for lower cost if we shift away from monopoly government schools to a system based on parental choice. Yet some leftists oppose this reform, even though...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 27, 2013 | Big Government, Blogs, Europe, Government Spending
I don’t write or speak about education very much, but, when asked, I explain that America has a very costly and inefficient government school monopoly. The strongest piece of evidence is an amazing chart put together by a Cato colleague. It shows that education...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 7, 2012 | Big Government, Blogs, Education
The education people at Cato do remarkable work. They put together one of the best charts I’ve ever seen, and they are leading the fight for school choice and against any federal government role in education. This new video, showing the failure of Bush’s main...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 24, 2011 | Blogs, Free Market
School choice doesn’t automatically mean every child will be an educational success, but evidence from other nations certainly suggests it means better overall performance. Sweden, Chile, and the Netherlands are just some of the countries that have seen good results...
