Marc Oestreich
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I strongly encourage you all pick up a copy of today’s Wall Street Journal. Flip to the editorial section and tucked between mail bombs, robo-lending, and pension reform sits one…
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Education
“Free & Reduced Lunch” or “Costly & Reduced Effectiveness”?
by Marc Oestreich November 9, 2010Never mind the fact that federal oversight of any sort is an overreach of executive power and wholly unconstitutional, Title I funding makes its case for the nation’s least necessary…
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As a practical libertarian (yes, editor of something called Somewhat Reasonable) and realist education reformer, I tend to take people by surprise when I come out strongly against “Performance Pay.”…
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When policy analysts at interest groups and think tanks and researchers in academia set out to look at education policy they each must think themselves so clever in calling it…
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Education bulldozer Michelle Rhee will announce her resignation as Washington D.C. school czar says the Washington Post. The former Teach For America alum and founder of the New Teacher Project,…
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Chris Christie is at it again. This teacher wants to understand why Christie has lambasted public education. Well it deserves lambasting when the teacher union asks for a raise at…
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The Council for American Private Eduation (CAPE), released this great, albeit dry, video about the benefits of private school. The thesis revolves around one line: “children only get one education,…
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Their technical expertise is growing thanks in no small part to a wealth of well-organized, well-funded, tech universities in India. Where there is tech expertise there are jobs being created.…
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Net Neutrality's Vocal Minority: Second-Life Socialists
by Marc Oestreich August 16, 2010Facebook representatives this week denounced the attempt by Google and Verizon to craft a free-market approach to net neutrality (“Facebook at Odds With Google, Verizon on Net Neutrality,” Digits, August…