Why Teachers Should Love Charter Schools
As Milton Friedman pointed out in Capitalism and Freedom, teachers have a lot to gain from a competitive education market....
Remedial Courses
Just two days after the New York Times published an article about teenagers sending tens of thousands of text messages...
Branson and Its Fancy New Airport
USA Today follows up on the recent New York Times story about the new private airport in Branson. It is...
Private Airport Right Here in Missouri
With all our recent talk about privatization of airports, how the hell did I not know one was being built...
Single-Sex Classrooms in the New York Times
More and more schools are separating the sexes in hopes of improving student achievement. This New York Times article reports...
The First Shall Be Last
According to this New York Times article, a number of states were competing for the honor of “first to spend...
Rewards for Learning
Here’s a more interesting New York Times education article, this one about rewards for student achievement. I have some comments:...
Charters Cause Chaos
Charter school opponents predict chaos if public schools are run by independent organizations. Then, when the charters gain market share,...
Controversy Over Charter Schools
The New York Times published two articles about charter schools in the past few days: the first, a profile of...
Interesting Articles All Around
Just a few things I highly recommend to all of you, my treasured fans … First, an interesting history of...
Beyond Freakonomics in St. Louis
While I should have posted something about this sooner, I’ll offer a brief account of Tuesday evening’s visit from Steve...
Bob Herbert’s Weak Attempt on Health Care
If Bob Herbert of the New York Times had read the Show-Me Institute’s primer on health savings accounts, perhaps he...
Assessing Incentives for Academic Performance
One of the more radical (and controversial) ideas in education reform these days is to offer students cold, hard cash...
Wowee
After 38 ½ years of service, Barbara Trzeszkowski reported for her last day of work on Monday at the Keansburg...
Lessons From South Korea
Neal McCluskey blogs about South Korean education and the roots of its success. McCluskey argues that the private sector is...
People Respond to Pricing
Incentives and prices matter. As prices change, habits and activities change. Here are two articles relating to how people are...
Bad Schools, Good Economy?
An op-ed in the New York Times brings up the question of why the U.S. economy has done so well...
Single-Sex Public Education
Schoolhouse Talk links to a New York Times article on single-sex public schools and notes that the Columbia Public Schools...
Don’t Take Pride in Not Being the Worst
In a study highlighted by the New York Times and every other major news publication in the country, the Pew...
A Tale of Two Subways
Sunday’s Post-Dispatch featured an article reporting that Metro, with the aid of its newly contracted security firm The Wackenhut Corp.,...
