Last week I wrote that the problem of runaway college spending presents libertarians with something of a dilemma, because, “the best way to bend down the long-term higher education cost curve and thus reduce government spending is to increase government regulation in the form of mandatory reporting [of information about institutional performance].”
Unsurprisingly, Neal McCluskey of [...]
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The Libertarian’s Dilemma, Cont’d
More From / About Cato
Over at the Cato @Liberty blog (which, I must admit, is one of the better blog names going), Andrew Coulson responds to this post about Cato’s recent conversion from advocacy for bad voucher ideas to advocacy for even worse education tax credit ideas by pointing out that he’s actually been peddling this really terrible idea [...]
Cato Renounces School Vouchers
My wife and I moved into our house on Capitol Hill almost seven years ago. At first, we got a lot of mail addressed to the previous residents. But over time, people figured out that the old owners had moved to Bethesda so their kids could go to school in Montgomery County (this drives roughly [...]
More arguing with libertarians!
I’m pleased that Cato’s Adam Schaeffer agrees with me that special education voucher programs, like Florida’s McKay program, are a bad idea. Still he feels compelled to make a few feeble defenses of the program: there are already perverse incentives for overidentification in the current system (my response: yes, but programs like McKay exacerbate those [...]
The Great Child Care Cost Shift
Special all-libertarian day here at quick and ed!–No, not really.
Kerry Howley makes the case in the recent issue of Reason that illegal immigration is particularly benefical to women because the supply of cheap, undocumented domestic labor makes child care more affordable, helping women balance work and family. It’s an interesting argument, but I think overstated, [...]
More On Why Having a Hammer Doesn’t Make Everything a Nail
Cato’s Adam Schaeffer takes issue with my post earlier this week about the incredible tediousness of pro-voucher groups’ assertion that choice is the solution to every imaginable educational problem.
He actually has a somewhat reasonable point. To the extent that increased choice and customization in education can make the entire educational system more [...]
Limits of Evidence from Abroad on Vouchers
Andrew Coulson responds to my response to his argument that foreign voucher programs show that vouchers will expand the supply of high-quality schools serving poor kids. His arguments still aren’t convincing.
Coulson admits that Chile’s voucher program, while expanding the number of private schools, has done so much more for upper-income and middle-class, rather [...]
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.