No, I’m not talking about the unions bringing down what used to be the biggest company in the United States, GM, but about how unions harm our public education system:
A $13.2 million, five-year grant from the National Math and Science Initiative, designed to add new Advanced Placement teachers, courses and exams for thousands of Washington […]
Archive for the 'Education' Category
May8th2008
May1st2008
Thomas Sowell explains:
Those who want the government to provide subsidies to help meet the high cost of college seem not to consider whether government subsidies might have contributed to the high cost of college in the first place.
In any kind of economic transaction, it seldom makes sense to charge prices so high that very few […]
Apr23rd2008
“I’ve been asking myself that about student loans for quite some time. It’s still not clear to me how much, if at all, they benefit the students they are supposed to help. It seems at least equally plausible that they’re simply feeding the tuition inflation which makes it impossible for a normal kid to work […]
Apr22nd2008
“After adjusting for multiple sources of bias and differences in sample construction, we establish that (1) the U.S. high school graduation rate peaked at around 80 percent in the late 1960s and then declined by 4-5 percentage points; (2) the actual high school graduation rate is substantially lower than the 88 percent estimate of the […]
Apr21st2008
Quote Of The Day
Published by in (modern day) Liberalism, Academia, Economics, Education, General, University and Wal-Mart. 1 Comment“I have never quite encountered an intrinsically less fair institution than the university, at least in liberal terms of egalitarianism and respect for the underclass. A full professor may damn Wal-Mart, but Wal-Mart would never get away with the two-tier system that the university in built upon: the PhD part-timer has no job security, sometimes […]
Apr18th2008
Milton Friedman On Race, Poverty And Government
Published by in Capitalism, Chicanoism, Discrimination, Economics, Education, General, Hispanics (Minority Issues), Minimum Wage, ModernPolitics, Myths, Poverty, Vouchers and affirmative action. 1 CommentYou need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video
From an old speech but just as relevant today as it was then.
Apr16th2008
“For the first time in decades, and probably ever, workers retiring from the US labour force will be better-educated on average (according to one measure anyway) than their much younger counterparts. Some 12 per cent of 60-64 year olds have a master’s degree or better; less than 10 per cent of 30-34 year olds do. […]
Mar19th2008
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From a professors perspective. He shows how the dumbing down of our education system by ‘feel good’ math instructions has resulted in a drastic decrease in the quality of education.
For those who would argue that traditional methods of teaching mathematics will not work, here […]
Mar17th2008
“Not only are government subsidies for government tuition unnecessary, they also victimize the truly disadvantaged people in our society: those who lack the educational qualifications to go to college in the first place (usually due to a combination of poor public schooling and a flawed family environment). These people pay some of the taxes that […]
Mar14th2008
Kevin Carey, research and policy manager at Education Sector, writes in the Chronicles of Higher Education:
The fact that increased prices go hand in hand with more-selective admissions is all the better, since that leads to increased status, wealthier alumni, and higher rankings in U.S. News & World Report. In a normal market, businesses can cut […]
Mar10th2008
The New York Sun reports:
The candidate who looks strongest on the education issue at the moment is Senator McCain. It hasn’t escaped the Arizona Republican, apparently, that the daughters of both Senator Clinton and Obama attended elite private schools of the kind that can be accessed by pupils from ordinary families only where there are […]
Mar7th2008
Parents Want Choice
Published by in Education, General, Hispanics (Minority Issues) and Vouchers. 3 CommentsSchool choice that is.
“100 Texan families camped outside a charter school for two days because parents want to enroll their kids in River Oaks rather than their traditional public school”. LibertyIsForMe has more here.
Feb26th2008
Will vouchers help improve non-voucher schools as well? Opponents of vouchers say no, but a recent study says yes:
…we find that schools that received a grade of “F” in summer 2002 immediately improved the test scores of the next cohort of students, and that these test score improvements were not transitory, but rather remained in […]
Feb20th2008
Education Revolt In Watts
Published by in Economics, Education, General, Unions and Vouchers. 1 CommentThere is no area in more desperate need of school choice than the ghettos of the United States. With high levels of gangs, drugs, and crime, just basic security concerns are enough to push parents to seek alternative venues. Yet even in these dire circumstances, the teachers union continues to stand in the way of […]
Feb13th2008
Quote Of The Day
Published by in (modern day) Liberalism, Education, General, Hispanics (Minority Issues) and Vouchers. 8 Comments“But there seems to be little political pressure for such reforms. The costs of the social disorders that afflict poor blacks are incurred mainly by poor blacks themselves, and poor blacks do not vote very much. Moreover, blacks support the Democratic Party so overwhelmingly that Democrat politicians have little incentive to expend their necessarily limited […]
Jan14th2008
“I have believed for a while now that an important reason that suburban public schools outperform urban public schools is that suburban public schools have to keep the parents happier because of the competition from private schools. That is, in a rich suburban neighborhood, you get excellent public school, partly because the parents are rich […]
