An Open Letter to Mark Zuckerberg
Mr. Zuckerberg: When you set out to create Facebook (then “The Facebook”) you didn’t work within the confines of what was already there. You built what should be there. You[...]
Author: Marc Oestreich
WSJ: The Parent Trigger Goes Mainstream
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[...]
“Free & Reduced Lunch” or “Costly & Reduced Effectiveness”?
Never 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[...]
Good Ending to a Bad Situation: Privatize NPR
The Juan Williams ballyhoo should be given a proper happy ending, or so says one Slate Magazine writer. Slate.com’s resident power-Libertarian Jack Shafer takes on National Public Radio in his[...]
False Promises of Teacher Performance Pay
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.”[...]
The Only True ‘Report Card’ on Public Education
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[...]
Embracing the ‘Elite’
In regards to Bruno’s post about the “elite”: The Tea Party has done a great many things in advancing the ideals of liberty, freedom, and limited government, and its done[...]
Rhee-membering
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,[...]
Chris Christie Should Privatize Education
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[...]
My Dad is Right, The Media is Left
It seems like the constant refrain of my dad: “They’re trying to push their socialist agenda on us.” And at first I would shrug it off as the grumblings of[...]
Private School is Good for America
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,[...]
Education: U.S. Stagnates, India Make Strides
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.[...]
UK “Falls Back” on Capitalism to Promote Broadband
A mixture of hilariously bureaucratic and interest-tailored taxes and a central government that has stumbled over budget insolvency and broken promises has created an interesting situation for UK telecom policy.[...]
Net Neutrality’s Vocal Minority: Second-Life Socialists
Facebook 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[...]
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- Who Owns the Land?
- The terrible economic burden of occupational licensing
- Competition, disruptive innovation, and men's razors
- Althouse: The Clinton White House "conspiracy commerce memo" warned, in 1995, that "THE INTERNET... allows an extraordinary amount of unregulated data and information to be located in one area and available to all."
- The Epic Hypocrisy of Tom Steyer
- Competition, Rent-Seeking, and High-Frequency Trading
