By Andrew J. Coulson
Matt Ladner does a good job of explaining how his beliefs shape his education policy recommendations. It’s a quality that he shares with Horace Mann, who persuaded the people of …
The Making and Breaking of Education Policy is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
By Adam Schaeffer
The New Hampshire House and Senate approved a a path-breaking education tax credit bill yesterday with an overwhelming 70 percent support in each chamber. The Governor must now decide whether to sign up with reform on the right side of history or face a veto-override battle. The program includes home school expenses and allows the [...]
Huge Victory for Educational Freedom in NH is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
By Andrew J. Coulson
There’s a rift within the U.S. school choice movement as to whether private school choice programs should cover every child or focus only on the poor. Fortunately, the cause of this disagreement is not so much that the two sides have different goals but that they have different assumptions about what will achieve those goals. [...]
Universal Dependence or Universal Access? is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
By Neal McCluskey
Why the big concern about the Common Core? For many it’s about the quality of the standards, which is a topic well worth delving into. But the real problem is that — continued protestations of supporters notwithstanding — adopting the standards has been anything but truly voluntary, and they are very likely to lead to [...]
NCLB Is ‘Voluntary,’ Too is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
By Andrew J. Coulson
Californians may be forgiven for expectorating coffee over their morning newspapers today, as they learn that their state deficit is not $9 billion, as Governor Brown’s administration had predicted, but rather $16 billion. Oops. Further increasing the breakfast table choking hazard is the Governor’s “solution”: raise taxes. Gov. Brown is pushing a fall ballot initiative [...]
California Knows How to Party… $16 Billlion Too Lavishly is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
By Neal McCluskey
There is a case study being written right now about the absurdity of government. Basically, both parties are trying to outdo each other politically in order to pass a bit of pandering that they actually agree on: freezing at rock-bottom levels interest rates on subsidized federal student loans. Republicans, at least, are taking some political risk by trying [...]
Panderer Throwdown! is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
By Michael F. Cannon
In the Wall Street Journal, Peter Berkowitz says you probably didn’t. And it shows: It would be difficult to overstate the significance of The Federalist for understanding the principles of American government and the challenges that liberal democracies confront early in the second decade of the 21st century. Yet despite the lip service they pay to [...]
Did You Read the Federalist Papers in College? Grad School? Law School? is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
By Neal McCluskey
As the story of Julia—America’s favorite two-dimensional, life-long ward of the state—makes clear, higher education is likely to figure prominently in the upcoming presidential campaign. In addition, as the student loan interest uproar has progressed, I’ve realized that a lot of well-meaning people have little or no clue about higher ed reality. As a result, I’ve put together a few [...]
A Quick College Policy Primer is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
By Andrew J. Coulson
The editor of The Nation thinks college should be given away for free. She’s probably right, but perhaps not in the sense she intends. So many college degrees today are intrinsically worthless that it should really not be possible to find people willing to pay for them. As I wrote in a recent New York [...]
Why College Should Be Given Away for Free is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
By Andrew J. Coulson
In my home province of Quebec, an 11-year-old boy is building children’s picnic tables in his garage (using jigs his father built for him) and selling them at a very reasonable price at local home stores. You won’t need to speak French to get the gist of it. What he’s learning is surely invaluable, and [...]
11-Year-Old Entrepreneur Discovers Business Can Be a Picnic is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
