D-Ed Reckoning

I'm in the process of wading through the 100 or so comments generated in my five part Economics for Edupundits to address the issues rai...

The oxymoronically titled Council of the Great City Schools , an advocacy group for urban public schools, turns up the rhetoric to 11 on the...

Clearly, I side with Hayek.  And, apparently, so did the economy.

( Continued from Part IV ) Before I address the many fine issues raised in the battle raging over in the comment section of Part IV, I want...

( continued from Part III ) Let’s take a brief break from the economics lessons (at least one student needs a recess break) and see how all...

( Part II is here ) Fixing the problems we see in the present public education system is easy, but in the short term highly disruptive.  Bu...

(Part I is here .) Most people don’t understand the distinction between capitalism and capitalists (i.e., businessmen).  The former is almo...

Those who favor government running the education system often seem to think that government is somehow immune form economic and political fo...

Woo Hoo! I win . I’d like to thank all my readers and, especially, all my commenters who make all of this possible.  Without you I wouldn’t...

It was very sweet to see Dick Schutz defend Nancy Flanagan in the comments of this post . Though normally ideological foes, they’ve found ...