Neal McCluskey is the associate director of the Center for Educational Freedom at the Cato Institute. He is the author of the book Feds in the Classroom: How Big Government Corrupts, Cripples, and Compromises American Education, and his writings have appeared in such publications as the Wall Street Journal, Baltimore Sun, and Forbes. He is a Ph.D. candidate in public policy at George Mason University.
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If this is how reauthorization of the Higher Education Act is going to go, Congress shouldn’t even bother.
A couple of months ago I warned about the dangers of having government gather and publish growing reams of information in the name of making education better.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has delivered a lot of money for ideas to make higher education more affordable.
When it comes to taking on higher education, I thought I was as hard bitten as any Law and Order cop.
So the country avoided the fiscal cliff, at least one level of it.
Something that seems to get broad support among policy people is government collecting more data and using new statistics to “inform” the public, politicia
I love me some Georgetown University basketball, and am happy to pay for the privilege of possessing season tickets.
