Under the Bush system in Texas, teachers teach the test. They drill until ninety percent of the kids can pass it. The weakest among the students dictate the pace and method. It is a dreary and unimaginative approach to teaching. But if your goal is to boost overall scores, no question: this is the way to do it.
Rumor has it that the economics profession has finally been "won over" to a free-market view of the world. If the complimentary economics textbooks that cross my desk are a bellwether, however, it is not yet time to break out the champagne.
Why is it always socialist academics from the USA who fill the posts of visiting professors in European universities? William Anderson explains.
The idea of vouchers sounds good, but it has too many inherent flaws, like Oskar Lange’s "market socialism."
There is a rumor afloat that the economics profession has finally been "won over" to a free market view of the world. That's not the case, says William Anderson.
After attending a leading business school for the last year, I have been witness to capitalist bashing that rivals that of high schools and colleges. The chilling part is that these schools are training future business managers working in a free-enterprise system.
In the past, smart French students dreamed of attending the ENA, an educational citadel of government planning. No longer.
Interviewed at the Rothbard Graduate Seminar, the famed macroeconomist comments on his new book and the state of liberty in France.
Anti-capitalism is pervasive in academia, and the new data on graduate school admissions suggest that it is only going to get worse.
Another day, another politician blasts economics as a discipline and political issue. (Column by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.)
