Education Archive for Ezra Klein - Economic and Domestic Policy, and Lots of It

Will Colleges Go the Way of, Well, Newspapers?

Is higher education the next industry to fall before the Internet? Kevin Carey investigates: In recent years, Americans have grown accustomed to living amid the smoking wreckage of various once-proud industries — automakers bankrupt, brand-name Wall Street banks in ruins,...

The High Cost of Knowledge

Niraj Choksi runs the numbers and finds something interesting: Education costs have been rising even faster than medical costs: Per capita spending on health care is more than $7,000. It's nowhere near as high in education, and so this is...

Do We Need Ivy-League Teachers?

Sarah Fine was one of those high-achieving, socially conscious, Ivy-educated kids who we're always saying should become teachers. And she listened. She became a teacher. But this year, she's giving it up. The salary was part of it. The...

Obama on Education

Amid everything else that's going on, I'm not really sure where President Obama is getting time to receive briefings on education reform and begin pushing "Race to the Top," the $4.35 billion program to provide grants to encourage states to...

The Trouble With School Choice

The graphic above comes from The Center for New York City Affairs' school choice report. It's a simple outline of how to navigate New York's school choice system. Only it's not that simple. Which means that it's biased toward...

School Segregation and Teacher Quality

Education Week's Debra Viadero highlights a depressing new study out of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school district in North Carolina. In 2002, the 137,000-student district ended its 30-year busing program. In effect, it de-desegregated its schools. The results were quick and...

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