Checker Finn describes my critique of his neo-Hooverite views on education policy and the stimulus bill as a “particularly dated defense of Keynesianism,” and asserts that borrowing money to prevent pro-cyclical mass layoffs and deep cuts in state and local education spending amounts to “Stalin-style job creation.”
This is a case of conventional wisdom failing to [...]
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Finn: Saving Teacher Jobs = Stalinism
Conservatives Denounce Obama for Saving Jobs, Economy
At the National Review, Rick Hess and Checker Finn denounce the Obama administration for using stimulus funding to save the jobs of 400,000 teachers and college professors on the grounds that…this was a bad idea. Really:
It’s a fact that employment was an explicit purpose of stimulus funding — Congress said as much — and with [...]
The P Stands for Public
This week’s Gadfly has some really interesting nuggets: Fordham Foundation President Checker Finn discusses international benchmarking and the organization’s move to the future, and apparently Bill Bennett is launching an entire history curriculum. The latter seems particularly ripe for comment, but I really have beef with only one word in the entire issue: safe.
As [...]
Finn Speaks
Proving once again (as if it were even necessary at this point) that when The Quick and the ED speaks, people listen, Fordham’s Checker Finn dips his toe in the blogosphere for the first time, by calling foul on the “bizzare piggybacking and ahistoricism” of an upcoming Heritage Foundation event titled “25 Years After A [...]
Flypaper Cometh
The Thomas B. Fordham Institute has launched a new education blog, Flypaper. This is a welcome addition to the edublogosphere and one that I imagine will quickly become a staple of most people’s daily edublog shortlist. Why I don’t always agree with the folks at Fordham, they’re smart and have a lot of interesting, often [...]
Lowering Student Loan Default Rates: What One Consortium of Historically Black Institutions Did to Succeed 
College and Career-Ready: Using Outcomes Data to Hold High Schools Accountable for Student Success
03/11/10 | Kevin Carey is quoted on the rising costs of education in The Economist.
03/10/10 | Chad Aldeman's False Fronts paper is quoted on Accuracy in Academia.
03/09/10 | Ben Miller is quoted on Federal Family Education Loan defaults on The Huffington Post.
03/09/10 | Ben Miller is quoted on loan origination on the Firedog Lake blog.
03/07/10 | Kevin Carey calls for a Race to the Top in higher education in a column in The Chronicle of Higher Education.