Fun Facts to Know and Tell: Public Schooling and the Poor Edition
Posted in Education, Price System on Apr 19th, 2012
Free, high quality education for all, right?
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The Weak Case for Public Schooling: A Continuing Series
Posted in Education on Jun 14th, 2010
I’d like to see data on the cost of constructing school facilities when undertaken by public schools versus private schools. Given the record of cost overruns and inefficient use of labor in the building of public projects like highways (e.g. the Big Dig), sports stadiums and the like and the fact that special interests stand […]
The Case Against Public Schooling: A Continuing Series
Posted in Education, Market Failures on Jun 10th, 2010
Perhaps the most common justification for government support of schooling is that when individuals and families make choices about how much schooling (not education mind you) to acquire, they think only of the benefits to them of going and ignore the possible spillover benefits that accrue to society. This argument is specious for lots of […]
The Nonexistent Case for Public Schooling in Rich Neighborhoods
Posted in Education, Market Failures on Mar 23rd, 2010
Our family lives in Pittsford, NY. It is widely understood to be one of the two nicest and richest communities in the Rochester area. A major reason we located here is that the small home we purchased would very likely to be easy to resell in the event of (yet another) career move. In 2007, […]
Public Schooling in Massachusetts
Posted in Education on Jun 21st, 2008
The literacy rate in Massachusetts was 98% in 1850. Massachusetts passed a compulsory education law in 1852. Senator Kennedy released a paper in the 1980s indicating that the literacy rate in Massachusetts was 91%.
The Standard Public Goods Case FOR Government Schooling
Posted in Education, You Can't Have it Both Ways on Dec 6th, 2013
Seems to me to actually imply precisely the opposite. You read that correctly. If one wishes to argue that education is a public good, then I think the correct conclusion using the standard textbook tools of economics (that I often disagree with) brings us to recognize that government schooling does NOT follow. How can I argue this? […]
Does Government Schooling –> Economic Growth? And a Darwin-Worthy “News” Story
Posted in Education, Politics, You Can't Have it Both Ways on Dec 9th, 2013
Readers should be on alert, this is me confirming my biases. I am sure, too, that this research is only the case in Eastern Europe, never could imagine the same result holding here in the good ol’ U.S.S. of A. I found this interesting in light of last Friday’s post. School, what is it good […]
Do We NEED Government Coerced Schooling to Promote Civic Virtue? And Other Twisty Pretzels
Posted in Education, You Can't Have it Both Ways on Oct 17th, 2013
The K12 educational enterprise (to put it kindly) is certainly one that believes deeply in the civic mission of K12 education. It’s hard to read any publication emanating from the Ed Schools or teacher union establishment that suggests anything to the contrary – or indeed anything that suggests civic values can be promoted by anything […]
A Close Second to Failing Government Schooling in Inner Cities …
Posted in Central Planning, Taxation on Jan 16th, 2013
… is government transportation and infrastructure policy. We’ll delve into that shortly. For now, here is a little more dog-bites-man: According to an analysis based on Census data by transportation specialist Ron Utt, nine of 10 Virginia commutes are by car and fewer than one in 20 by mass transit. Yet he calculates that about […]
Raising Taxes on the Rich: A Proposal that Democrats, Republicans and Libertarians Should Support
Posted in Education, Taxation, Voluntary Society, You Can't Have it Both Ways on Dec 4th, 2012
Let’s make this short and sweet, but I think it is probably my most impassioned policy preference among the many that I hold. I, too, support raising taxes on “the rich.” I’ll repeat it, I support raising taxes on the rich. And I support that tax at much lower levels of richness than even the President […]
