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What we're reading this week: November 16, 2023

The Education Gadfly
11.16.2023
  • Preferring half measures, states must go all-in for universal education savings accounts if school choice is to truly revolutionize education. —Roland Fryer, Wall Street Journal
  • School vouchers fail to create the conditions necessary for effective markets to function. —Douglas Harris, Annenberg Institute
  • A once popular economic concept, so-called nudge thinking, falls into disrepute. —Eduardo Porter, Washington Post
  • The biggest obstacle to school-wide phone bans isn’t students; it’s parents. —Pamela Paul, New York Times
  • A new survey finds that even students don’t like overly-lenient grading and attendance policies. —New York Times
  • “How Reconstruction created American public education” —Adam Harris, The Atlantic
Tags: Roland G. Fryer Jr.
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