This week in the New York Times, Fernando Santos and Motoko Rich took a look at the continuing teacher shortage in Arizona, where leaders c...

I grew up Methodist (United Methodist, actually), went through a long Between Churches spell, and eventually settled back into a sort of rel...

Proponents of vouchers and choice systems never tire of touting the benefits of the free market. For them, the free market is like a colosse...

There's a great Steve Jobs clip I've used before. In it, Jobs offers his explanation of how the bean counters end up in charge of a ...

I've written before about how the free market is a terrible match for public education ( here , here and here , for example). The act...

In today's Slate, Alison Griswold addresses the issue of cranky travelers and the ever-shrinking world of air travel amenities , and in ...

Scoop of the Week award goes to Stephen Dyer, who reported on his blog the surprising words of CREDO charter fan Margaret Raymond , who was ...

One of America's super-duper examples of how the free market can unlock innovation and advance education is back in the news. With strip...

Writer-researcher Mark Weber published a piece about charters on NJSpotlight this week that deals with charter schools in New Jersey, but wh...

Fans of market forces for education simply don't understand how market forces actually work. What they like to say is that free market...