Education in America

The New York Times Magazine’s education feature is getting some buzz today. Well worth a read, though the point is relatively simple: Poor and immigrant parents employ different parenting strategies that tend to result in worse developmental, academic, and professional outcomes (conversely, their children tend to be happier, but who cares about that?), and you […]

I’ve been struggling to articulate what most unnerves me about the Kerry flap for a couple of days, trying to figure out how to say this without it being ripped out of context mere microseconds after posting. Not easy. But let’s start with the education issue: There are a I’ve been struggling to articulate what […]

By Neil the Ethical Werewolf Says Kevin Drum, on single-sex public high schools: As with so many issues in education, my first reaction is thatexperimentation is a good thing. Give it a try and see how it works. Ifit turns out as badly as Brad suggests, we can always kill it later. I’m concerned that […]

I’m always impressed by the faith libertarians, and some contrarian liberals, put into education markets. They speak of them in the rapturous tones of Bill Kriston contemplating slaughter, or me talking universal health care. But none of the evidence I’ve seen on charter school outcomes has been very convincing. My understanding is that while they’ve […]