Education
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Public Sector Unions Undermine Accountability
Research on schools, policing, and government spending is clear: public sector bargaining forces taxpayers to finance the erosion of their rights.
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NYT’s Nikole Hannah-Jones Regrets Sending Her Daughter to Failing Public School
The Project 1619 journalist said parents should stick with struggling, segregated schools. Her daughter isn’t the only one who was cheated by that ideological choice.
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The Great Repricing of the College Degree
The college wage premium remains substantial, but has declined sharply since 2022. Generative AI may be part of the explanation, but it is not the whole story.
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The Swinging Sixties, Chicago School Style
At the height of the cultural revolution, a group of Chicago economists was quietly launching one of its own.
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Admissions Standards Ration Scarce Resources
Mismatching students and institutions can hurt the very students such policies intend to help — while squandering scarce faculty talent on remedial math.
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Ironic Inheritance: How Andrew Carnegie’s Millions Still Underwrite the Academy
Academics may distrust concentrated private wealth, but their retirement system owes its origins to one of history’s great industrial fortunes.
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Independent Thinking Can’t Be Force-Fed
The new book ‘Unconventional Education and America’s Founding’ traces the pluralistic, self-led educations that prepared colonial learners to remake the world.
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America’s Public Schools Have an Empty-Desk Problem
Chronic absenteeism is soaring. The government school monopoly has few incentives to change.
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Univ. of Michigan’s Hidden Grades Will Backfire on Students
Hiding student grades may sound compassionate, but it will weaken an important signal of merit and push employers toward less transparent ways of sorting applicants.
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Rediscovering the Comparative Advantage of Business Schools
Before asking students how businesses should change society, business schools should ensure they understand how businesses create value in the first place.
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Public Sector Unions Undermine Accountability
Research on schools, policing, and government spending is clear: public sector bargaining forces taxpayers to finance the erosion of their rights.
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•
NYT’s Nikole Hannah-Jones Regrets Sending Her Daughter to Failing Public School
The Project 1619 journalist said parents should stick with struggling, segregated schools. Her daughter isn’t the only one who was cheated by that ideological choice.
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•
The Great Repricing of the College Degree
The college wage premium remains substantial, but has declined sharply since 2022. Generative AI may be part of the explanation, but it is not the whole story.
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•
The Swinging Sixties, Chicago School Style
At the height of the cultural revolution, a group of Chicago economists was quietly launching one of its own.
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•
Admissions Standards Ration Scarce Resources
Mismatching students and institutions can hurt the very students such policies intend to help — while squandering scarce faculty talent on remedial math.
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Ironic Inheritance: How Andrew Carnegie’s Millions Still Underwrite the Academy
Academics may distrust concentrated private wealth, but their retirement system owes its origins to one of history’s great industrial fortunes.
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•
Independent Thinking Can’t Be Force-Fed
The new book ‘Unconventional Education and America’s Founding’ traces the pluralistic, self-led educations that prepared colonial learners to remake the world.
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•
America’s Public Schools Have an Empty-Desk Problem
Chronic absenteeism is soaring. The government school monopoly has few incentives to change.
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•
Univ. of Michigan’s Hidden Grades Will Backfire on Students
Hiding student grades may sound compassionate, but it will weaken an important signal of merit and push employers toward less transparent ways of sorting applicants.
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•
Rediscovering the Comparative Advantage of Business Schools
Before asking students how businesses should change society, business schools should ensure they understand how businesses create value in the first place.