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Assorted links
1. How to become a cyborg, for real
2. Harry Potter must live! (corrected link here)
3. Charles Koch on The Black Swan
4. Are vouchers working in Washington?
5. James Surowiecki: is the world getting better?
Posted by Tyler Cowen on June 22, 2007 at 11:45 AM in Web/Tech | Permalink
Comments
Tyler,
The HP link appears to not work. Don't know if it's your link or their site, though.
Posted by: LP at Jun 22, 2007 12:02:05 PM
Must be the link. Go their main page and scroll down, and you can read it.
Posted by: Paul Zrimsek at Jun 22, 2007 12:33:04 PM
Maybe the vouchers aren't working, in that they heven't improved education in 1 year, but even if it never changed, the public schools are charging a 100% markup for 0% added value.
Posted by: Matt at Jun 22, 2007 3:46:58 PM
Matt's dead right. The real story is that, at least based one year's data, vouchers enable children to get just as good an education at half the cost to taxpayers.
Posted by: Keith at Jun 22, 2007 4:07:25 PM
but parochial schools have always provided a comparable education at a much lower cost to tax payers.
It is obvious, we just need to turn the school system over to the catholic church.
Posted by: spencer at Jun 22, 2007 5:51:03 PM
Here's what I'm wondering: Do better parent perceptions correlate with better future child happiness?
Posted by: Keith at Jun 22, 2007 9:55:44 PM
Does anyone know of a paper or survey which analyzes how government regulation affects the final product of private schools? In short, is government regulation curtailing innovation within the sector or are educational entrepreneurs relatively free to experiment? I think answering this question will go a long ways in the debate over vouchers. BTW, I believe that public schools can be attacked on many more grounds than just educational outcomes. If the left in America was to ever have an enormous political weakness it would be its support of American public schools.
Posted by: John Pertz at Jun 22, 2007 10:26:26 PM
"parochial schools have always provided a comparable education at a much lower cost to tax payers"
In my experience parochial schools "cost" less because they are subsidized by the parish, and they charge extra for transportation, activities, and special education services. The teachers work for less because they are either working there out of religious commitment or waiting to get a job in the public schools. The only real savings they achieve that could be duplicated is less administrative costs.
Posted by: joan at Jun 23, 2007 2:30:09 AM
The cyborg article was weak and oversold, like 99% of popular coverage of anything having to do with neuroscience.
Posted by: asg at Jun 23, 2007 10:29:55 PM
