Choices for DC Families
In an article this week by the Washington Post titled “For many young D.C. parents, city schools remain a sticking point.” It is not that D.C. schools are just a sticking point, it is that D.C. schools...
View ArticleA Lesson in Propaganda: Reporting of Nation’s Report Card Results
Despite important, but rarely noted criticisms like test-takers’ weak incentives to give maximum effort, the periodic National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) is widely referred to as the...
View ArticlePoor Economic Education Sustains the System Responsible for It
One of the biggest reasons it is difficult to make the case for market-based, transformational school system change is because success requires receptiveness to – a willingness to consider –...
View ArticleOut to Lunch on Engagement
One of the unique things about the schooling industry is that the desired output of the industry is jointly produced by the educators and their schoolchildren clients. Economists call it...
View ArticlePoor Economic Education Sustains the System Responsible for It
One of the biggest reasons it is difficult to make the case for market-based, transformational school system change is because success requires receptiveness to – a willingness to consider –...
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