The missing points on the Milton Friedman Institute
Maybe there’s something wrong with me, but I think the collective faculty letter criticizing the creation of the University of Chicago’s Milton Friedman Institute is both correct and beside the point. The faculty point out that the investment of $200 million in this new entity will privilege a certain view of markets associated with Friedman, […]
Slurs against the apparently evil Linda Darling-Hammond and what TFA is really good for
I was struck by the following vivid language used today by the usually calm Kevin Carey: Of course, no TFA article would be complete without the requisite disparaging quote from Stanford professor and Obama advisor Linda Darling-Hammond, who has elevated TFA haterism into something of a fine art over the years. That’s pretty extreme, so […]