Contradictory arguments about “teacher equity” and the missing market analysis
Bottom line for this long post: few people take labor markets seriously in education. I mean seriously, not ideologically. ((There is some very decent microeconomic work, but it is sparser than what you might think and misses some of the key market mechanisms discussed in this entry.)) We need some work in market design for […]
Graduations, honorary degrees, student protest, and advising students
Last week, I wrote an entry about William Bowen’s comments at the Haverford College graduation. I was there to watch my daughter graduate and kept my entry brief because spending time with family trumped any urge to pontificate. I’m back for my last week as a department chair at USF and wanted to follow up on some […]
Brief comments on William Bowen and Haverford College commencement
Above, my view of William Bowen yesterday At yesterday’s Haverford College graduation, one of the honorary degree recipients was William Bowen, former president of Princeton University and longtime head of the Mellon Foundation (from 1988 to 2006). He took the opportunity to talk about the controversy at Haverford over the granting of an honorary […]
Why has no one challenged Florida’s large voucher programs?
In the wake of this year’s legislative maneuvering to expand Florida’s voucher programs, there is a significant question floating over the future of voucher programs: since the state Supreme Court ruled a smaller program unconstitutional in 2006, why has there been no legal challenge to the other, larger voucher programs in the past 8 years? […]
The ultimate LIFO
I’ve been trying to carve out time this week to read José Vilson’s This Is Not a Test, and also continue with Thomas Piketty. The combination of the two has sparked a few musings in the back of my mind, including the fact that someone else has noted, that Piketty’s hundreds-of-pages-long book doesn’t have much […]