Ted Kennedy and frames: 51 to go
Last Thursday, I recklessly created a set of predictions for major 2008 education stories and in the top item (on NCLB) wrote, If I were a senior member of an education committee, I’d work throughout the year to establish some consensus that would hold at least reasonably well no matter what the results of the […]
Public service academy debate
Wednesday, the American Enterprise Institute is holding a debate/roundtable about the need for a public service academy. If you live in DC and want an entertaining discussion, go register today.
Credentialism, human capital, and ahistoricism
I recently had occasion to review a very small slice of the economic literature on the value of education, and it struck me that while both sociologists and economists struggle with arguments about the value of education in contrast with the value of a credential, they do so almost in mirrored ways. The economic argument […]
Insomnia and IHE
If you’re here because of the IHE article, welcome! Look around, add comments, subscribe to the RSS feed, and come back often. Here’s the story behind Scott Jaschik’s piece: I was awake early Sunday morning (or in the wee hours between Saturday and Sunday) and in shape to do not much more than crawl through […]