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  • Why Is Higher Ed So Expensive?

    Why Is Higher Ed So Expensive?2

    Two things seem like they should go without saying: People use their own money more efficiently than they use someone else’s, and the more you subsidize a thing the more of it you tend to get. Both profoundly apply to American higher education, a teetering tower of ivory made simultaneously skyscraping and bloated by federal

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  • The COVID-19 Edition of ‘Race to the Top’

    The COVID-19 Edition of ‘Race to the Top’0

    Remember the Common Core, the national curriculum standards that sparked a conflagration over who should control what every public school child in America would learn? If nothing else, you might recall a little Core comedy, though in many places the Core is still with us in various forms. What you might not recall is how

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  • First Look at Latest National Test Scores: Is It Cultural?

    First Look at Latest National Test Scores: Is It Cultural?0

    The latest National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) – the “Nation’s Report Card” – scores are out, and they aren’t encouraging. But how discouraged should we be? The main NAEP tracks national, state, and selected local scores back to the early 1990s, though there have been some changes that have affected comparability among years, and not all states have participated

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  • Do Public High Schools Really Unify Society?

    Do Public High Schools Really Unify Society?0

    If someone told you that public high schools have taken people with political and social power and brought them together, to the exclusion of other people, would you celebrate those schools? Probably not. But that is essentially what a new Atlantic article does in extolling public high schools and attacking school choice. The piece, by English professor Amy Lueck,

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