Ira Stoll on What Obama Gets Wrong About Teachers, Firefighters, and Cops
Posted: June 11, 2012 Filed under: Public Schools, Public Unions, Uncategorized Leave a comment »Sent to you via Google Reader
Ira Stoll on What Obama Gets Wrong About Teachers, Firefighters, and Cops
Why Freer Schools Are Better Schools
Posted: March 27, 2010 Filed under: Education, Public Schools 1 Comment »“Public school failure can be traced directly to the technique of reform: centralized legal dictates. A steady accretion of law since the 1960s has smothered personality and individual responsibility in schools. There’s no oxygen left for educators to build healthy school cultures.”
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704117304575138134093860838.html
HT: http://jeffreymiron.com/2010/03/how-not-to-improve-schools/
The Entitlement Mentality in Academia
Posted: March 27, 2010 Filed under: Economics, Public Schools, Public Unions Leave a comment »Paying for school on $2 a day
Posted: February 24, 2010 Filed under: Development Economics, Education, Public Schools, Uncategorized Leave a comment »Sent to you via Google Reader
Paying for school on $2 a day
Public Education and Thought Control
Posted: February 15, 2010 Filed under: Public Schools, Uncategorized Leave a comment »Sent to you via Google Reader
Public Education and Thought Control
Video on the Public School Monopoly
Posted: February 11, 2010 Filed under: Competition, Education, Monopoly, Public Schools Leave a comment »http://jeffreymiron.blogspot.com/2010/02/public-school-monopoly.html
Effects of Free Choice Among Public Schools
Posted: February 11, 2010 Filed under: Competition, Education, Public Schools Leave a comment »“In this paper I investigate the impact of a program in Tel Aviv, Israel, that terminated an existing inter-district busing integration program and allowed students free choice among public schools. Theidentification is based on difference-in-differences and regression discontinuity designs that yield variousalternative comparison groups drawn from untreated tangent neighborhoods and adjacent cities. Acrossidentification methods and comparison groups, the results consistently suggest that choice significantlyreduces the drop-out rate and increases the cognitive achievements of high school students. It alsoimproves behavioral outcomes such as teacher-student relationships and students’ social acclimation andsatisfaction at school, and reduces the level of violence and classroom disruption.”
http://www.restud.com/uploads/papers/MS%252012566-3%2520manuscript.pdf
