“The right way to think about teacher compensation, I think, is this. You could have a system in which all teachers are paid the same amount. But we don’t have that system. Instead we have a system where veteran teachers are paid much more than novice teachers, and teachers with master’s degrees are paid more […]
Archive for the 'Education' Category
Sep11th2010
What a great response:
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Aug23rd2010
“If you want to know why teachers are being laid off in California (even if teaching has remained one of the most secure jobs nationwide) you might want to check out this new $578 million high school in LA Unified School District. As we’ve written before on JPGB, buildings don’t […]
Jul9th2010
The Face Of The Teachers Union
Published by in Education, Hispanics (Minority Issues) and Vouchers. 3 CommentsMany of my friends still innocently assume that the teachers union is really out to help the students, they have no real self interest in their own personal gain over those of students. Articles like this should remove them of such naive beliefs.
Jun8th2010
“In this article about college funding, Kevin Carey says something that I’ve long believed, which is that government-supported financial aid doesn’t quite work how you might imagine: colleges can just raise their prices along with any aid packages that come along. The price tag for college is not fixed, and so what looks like a […]
Jun4th2010
Milton Friedman On The Responsibility To The Poor
Published by in Economics, Education, General, Hispanics (Minority Issues), Minimum Wage, Myths and Poverty. 0 CommentsYou need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video
Just as true in 1978 as it is today.
Jun2nd2010
Three Must Watch Education Movies - Upcoming
Published by in Education and Hispanics (Minority Issues). 0 CommentsThe first is Waiting For Superman. The second is The Lottery. The third is The Cartel. All about education. All a must watch.
May20th2010
If you want to see how teachers union stand in the way of educational progress, read this New York Times article.
My favorite part of the article:
A building on 118th Street is one reason that the parents who are Perkins’s constituents know that charters can work. On one side there’s the Harlem Success Academy, […]
May19th2010
Why Democrats Fear Vouchers
Published by in Education, Hispanics (Minority Issues) and Vouchers. 0 CommentsYou need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video
A quick look will show you why: vouchers pits two traditionally Democratic constituents against each other, minorities and teachers union. In case you were wondering, I am on the side of the minorities.
In this case, the voucher bill passed and the school choice effort […]
May6th2010
Unions Kill Voucher Bill In Chicago
Published by in (modern day) Liberalism, Economics, Education, Hispanics (Minority Issues), Unions and Vouchers. 1 CommentThe Chicago Tribune gives the details:
The legislation got through the Senate in March after being championed by Sen. James Meeks, D-Chicago, and suburban Republicans. But by Wednesday, teachers unions had regrouped and its supporters found themselves pleading with opponents to overcome a furious lobbying effort to stop the bill.
“Think back […]
Apr28th2010
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What’s the quickest and easiest way to create a nationwide system of segregation academies? Force people to go to school based on where they live. How do you make them even worse? Let the district lines be drawn by an unaccountable bureaucracy that claims to care about kids but actually doesn’t care how many children’s […]
Apr6th2010
Remembering Jaime Escalante And What His Experience Tells Us
Published by in Education, Hispanics (Minority Issues) and Vouchers. 1 CommentJaime Escalante, the brilliant public school teacher immortalized in the 1988 film, “Stand and Deliver,” died last week at the age of 79. Cato’s Andrew Coulson writes in the WSJ about what his experience tells us:
In any other field, his methods would have been widely copied. Instead, Escalante’s success was resented. And while the teachers […]
Mar17th2010
Jay P. Greene, professor of education reform at the University of Arkansas, writes on the recent vote to end DC Vouchers:
It was perfectly predictable but still sad to watch. The U.S. Senate voted 55-42 yesterday against continuing the DC voucher program. Among Republicans only Olympia Snowe voted against the program. Among Democrats […]
Mar8th2010
Universal Kindergarten
Published by in Education, Hispanics (Minority Issues) and ModernPolitics. 1 CommentBefore we embark on universal preschool, we should look at the results from universal kindergarten. According to Elizabeth U. Cascio, assistant professor of economics at Dartmouth College, the gains were far short of expectations:
My results indicate that state funding of universal kindergarten had no discernible impact on many of the long-term outcomes desired by policymakers, […]
Feb19th2010
I remember reading that Malcolm X, being the radical that he was, increased the support for Martin Luther King Jr. In a world without a Malcolm X, MLK would have been the radical one. But with Malcolm X in the picture, it pushes people to compromise on a more ‘moderate’ person - and MLK fit […]
Feb10th2010
I admit it, I get uneasy feelings when people congratulate Obama for increasing Pell Grants. I don’t see it as the universal positive that many others do. For three reasons.
First, Pell grants are politically cheap. Increasing funding for Pell grants takes little courage and comes with no political cost. Who disagrees with more funding for […]
