Category: Education

Aaron Bady has a piece about free higher education over at Al Jazeera. As regular readers know, I have endorsed free higher education in the past funded by a graduate tax. So, Bady and I are pretty close together. In the fallout from his piece, a Twitter conversation ensued, which has inspired me to sum up some… Continue reading 3 Theses on Higher Education

I don’t actually know if Kati Haycock is wrong for America, but she is definitely wrong on Pay It Forward. Pay It Forward is a plan that levies a time-limited graduate tax to fund free tuition for Oregon public schools (so like, 3 percent of graduate income for 24 years or some such). Per the… Continue reading Kati Haycock: wrong on Pay It Forward, wrong for America

I want to win one very narrow point. I want to win it and have it killed because I am tired of seeing it. So I am begging anyone and everyone to tell me how I am wrong. The Opponent’s Argument Right now, some college graduates wind up doing federal income-based repayment (IBR) because they… Continue reading I beg anyone to tell me how I am wrong, please

American Federation of Teachers has a bad track record of throwing out contradictory arguments about Pay It Forward. In fact, a lot of the left literally has no idea what to do with it. It is a policy idea that they can’t really put into their usual scripts. Some try, but it is elusive. I… Continue reading More bad Pay It Forward arguments

Erik Loomis wrote about the Diane Ravitch v. Michelle Rhee stuff. I don’t care about the majority of the content of this conflict. More arts funding? Ok I guess. I don’t know. I didn’t particularly like arts classes. I liked gym class. How about more of that? I don’t know: leave it to some pedagogy… Continue reading Education and poverty, again