Education

August 15, 2016

Study: Americans care more about test score gaps based on wealth than on race or ethnicity

For decades, researchers have documented large differences in average test scores between minority and white students and between poor and wealthy students. But a new study finds that Americans are more concerned about—and more supportive of proposals to close—wealth-based achievement gaps than Black-White or Hispanic-White gaps. Continue Reading...

July 14, 2016

Examining Suspension Policies in the South

In Dothan, Alabama, school officials are meeting to make changes to the Dothan City Schools suspension policies because of disparities between the rates of suspensions between black and white students. Across the American South, these suspension disparities are among the greatest. Continue Reading...

July 07, 2016

The School Suspension Quagmire

The harsh discipline policies at schools across the nation are now under close scrutiny. Last week, Secretary of Education John King criticized the ‘zero-tolerance’ discipline policies of many charter schools across the country. Continue Reading...

July 07, 2016

How Kentucky Schools Are Rejecting the ‘College Readiness’ Cookie Cutter

Fueled by a mix of misguided cultural pressures and misaligned government incentives, college tuition has been rising for decades, outpacing general inflation by a wide margin. Yet despite the underlying problems, our politicians seem increasingly inclined to cement the status quo. Continue Reading...

February 29, 2016

Americans May Think They Want ‘Free College’ — Until They Find Out What It Is

Earlier today I pointed out that a plurality of Americans support single-payer health care — until they found out what it is. I suspect the same may be true for “free college,” another proposal endorsed by Bernie Sanders and others on the political left who want America to be more like Europe. Continue Reading...

February 11, 2016

Private Schools for the Poor

One of the popular targets of foreign aid is education, and understandably so. Yet as with most solutions sprouting from Western planners and do-gooders, the reality on the ground is a bit different than we typically imagine. Continue Reading...

January 27, 2016

Explainer: What You Should Know About School Choice

In honor of the sixth annual National School Choice Week, here are some facts you should know about school choice in America. What does “school choice” mean? The term “school choice” refers to programs that give parents the power and opportunity to choose the schools their children attend, whether public, private, parochial, or homeschool. Continue Reading...

December 17, 2015

What Bernie Sanders (and High School Guidance Counselors) Get Wrong About College

I mostly blame high school guidance counselors for our current confusion about college. Don’t get me wrong, most counselors are fine, well-intentioned people. When I was a recruiter for the Marines in the mid-1990s I met dozens of them and appreciated the work they did. Continue Reading...

November 12, 2015

Over-Educated and Under-Trained: Mike Rowe on the Need for Philosophizing Welders

Marco Rubio has inspired plenty of chin-stroking over his recent remarks about welders earning more than philosophers. “We need more welders and less philosophers,” he concluded in a recent debate. Continue Reading...

November 11, 2015

How to Solve the ‘Welders vs. Philosophers’ Debate, the Crisis in Underemployment, and the Student Loan Debt Problem of Liberal Arts Majors

A most unlikely debate has erupted over Marco Rubio’s comment in last night’s debate that welders earn more money that philosophers. It’s a strange controversy since, as Steven Wedgeworth said on Twitter, “There can’t really be this many philosophy majors.” Continue Reading...

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