At “The Quick and the Ed,” Kevin Carey has offered an intriguing if somewhat peculiar response to my and Rick Hess’s piece in the Education Gadfly and the National Review Online. We pointed out that the Obama administration had--months back--argued that K-12 reform is critical and that education’s $100 billion in borrowed “stimulus” funds ought to promote systemic improvement but, according to the administration’s own calculus, has not done so. In response, Kevin mounts an admirably straightforward, old-fashioned defense of government spending for its own sake....Read it here.
Note: Read Carey’s response to this response here.
