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What we're reading this week: October 17, 2024

The Education Gadfly
10.17.2024
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  • The rapid growth of higher education in developing nations has led to a mismatch between the number of graduates and available jobs, contributing to high rates of unemployment and illegal migration within the college-educated population.  —Jon Emont, Wall Street Journal
  • A new study suggests that charter school expansion and abuse scandals have led to the decline of Catholic schools in recent decades. Could ESAs put a stop to this trend? —The 74
  • The control variables typically included in observational studies are not enough to account for the complex factors that motivate human choice, suggesting that causal claims made in such studies may be unreliable. —Emily Oster, Parent Data
  • Trump’s vision for education, which includes both closing the Department of Education and expanding the federal role to review curricula for “wokeness,” is contradictory and difficult to implement. Harris’s is too vague, with few specifics and a focus instead on attacking Trump’s plan. —Laura Meckler, The Washington Post
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