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Hanushek in WSJ: “FINISH HIM!”
(Guest post by Greg Forster) In today’s Journal, Eric Hanushek seems to agree with our conclusion that the war of ideas is over: No longer is education reform an issue of liberals vs. conservatives....
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UFT: If You Close Your Eyes, the Schools Look Fine!
HHGTTG on the many uses of towels: “wrap it round your head to … avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (a mindboggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can’t see it, it can’t...
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Government Subsidies Subvert Colleges
(Guest post by Greg Forster) One of those little one-sentence news items on the front page of today’s Wall Street Journal reads: College tuition and fees climbed again this year, but the burden was...
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My colleague, Bob Costrell, has an op-ed in today’s Wall Street Journal that tells you the one number you need to know to understand the dispute over collective bargaining and public employee...
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A Teacher’s Comment
I’ve pasted below, in full, the comment that a teacher wrote in response to Bob Costrell’s op-ed in the Wall Street Journal about the expense of teacher health and retirement benefits in Milwaukee....
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Verdict in the WSJ: “School Vouchers Work”
Wall Street Journal columnist, Jason Riley has a must-read piece in the WSJ today. The piece features the work of my University of Arkansas colleague, Patrick Wolf, JPGB’s very own Greg Forster, as...
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Technology and School Choice: The False Dichotomy
(Guest post by Greg Forster) Terry Moe has a great article in today’s Journal about how entrepreneurial innovation taking advantage of new technology is putting the teacher’s unions on the road to...
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The Common Core Culture War Intensifies
(Guest post by Greg Forster) In today’s Journal, Sol Stern and Joel Klein attempt to sell conservatives on national standards by 1) misleading them about the federal government’s role, both in ramming...
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WSJ on ESA and Jordan Visser
(Guest Post by Matthew Ladner) The Wall Street Journal has a news story on the Arizona Empowerment Accounts program today. Notice especially the intellectual incoherence of the Scottsdale official...
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Good reads
(Guest Post by Matthew Ladner) The WSJ detects the Stockholm Syndrome of the six-inch Dark Lord of Nightmares MA Charter School Association and Eli Broad. Derrell Bradford earns a BOOOOOOM! by...
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