Andrew Coulson, RIP
Every once in a while I stumble across a sentence and think man, I wish I’d written that. One of...
Education Needs More Money, STAT!
If you believe the popular media outlets, Missouri schools are in dire need of more cash. They claim that Missouri...
Test Scores Aren’t Set in Stone
At Cato@Liberty, Andrew Coulson discusses Charles Murray’s ideas about education. Murray advocates competition in education because he believes competing schools...
Statistics That Defy Belief
Andrew Coulson of the Cato Institute had to publish a correction regarding his calculation of the per-pupil spending taking place...
The Future of Charter Schools
Andrew Coulson writes at Cato@Liberty about the regulation that invariably accompanies public education funding. He predicts that regulation will catch...
The Post-Partisan Age of School Choice
Over at Cato@Liberty earlier today, Andrew Coulson commented on how school choice is becoming an increasingly post-partisan issue, as politicians...
Stand Together for School Choice
Yesterday, Andrew J. Coulson — director of the Cato Institute’s Center for Educational Freedom — wrote in the Washington Examiner:...
Public Health, Safety, and Decoration
Andrew Coulson is blogging about interior design regulation. I highly recommend the Reason video at the end of his post,...
U.S. Education: the Last Rent-Seeking Frontier
Maybe that title is a bit of an exaggeration, given that there are plenty of opportunities for rent seeking in...
Educational Progress, or Lack Thereof
Andrew Coulson of Cato responds to the latest National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) data here. The picture is bleak....
Scandinavian Education in the News
Andrew Coulson takes issue with a news story that describes Swedish education as “socialist.” Although schools in Sweden are financed...
The Evidence for Free-Market Education Reform
At Cato-at-Liberty, Andrew J. Coulson and Neal McCluskey respond to Chester E. Finn, Jr.’s criticism of free-market education reform. This...
Education Reform Isn’t Easy, but It’s Worthwhile
The video from a recent Cato event, "Markets vs. Standards: Debating the Future of American Education," is online here. I...
Standards vs. Market Reform
Over at Cato-at-Liberty, Andrew J. Coulson tells it like it is: Trying to “fix” the education being provided by a...
“The Very Model of a Modern Major-General,” Parental Choice Version
The debate with Sol Stern over education reform has taken a poetical turn. Andrew Coulson parodies the Pirates of Penzance...
