by Dan Mitchell | Mar 31, 2021 | Blogs, Education
I wrote one week ago about a big victory for education in West Virginia. The Mountain State arguably now has the most extensive system of school choice in the country. This will be great for parents and children. There’s a lot of research showing...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 16, 2021 | Blogs, Education
Whenever I’m asked to give an example of a powerful and persuasive visual, I always have an easy answer. The late Andrew Coulson created a very compelling chart showing that huge increases in money and staff for government schools have not led to...
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 | Sep 7, 2020 | Blogs, Economics
Way back in early 2017, I warned in an interview that Trump would be a big spender (sadly, I was right). But I wasn’t being reflexively anti-Trump. Here’s a clip from that same program where I speculated that Trump might have the political skill to win support from...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 19, 2020 | Blogs, Education
Way before we had a pandemic, I wasn’t a fan of the government school monopoly. To paraphrase Winston Churchill, never have so many taxpayers paid so much money into a system that produced such mediocre results for so many people. Now that we have a pandemic, the...
