Another of the silver linings of this is that it may result in a political environment for a massive reform of government schools.
Category Archives: Education
Welcome To Covid College
I’ve been thinking and saying for a while that this has finally burst the higher-ed bubble. Dominic Green agrees.
Before Colleges Get Bailouts
Lawsuit Update
Mark Steyn: The Road To Mann Delay.
Markets Work
…even in crisis, if you let them. Laws against “price gouging” are economically insane.
Lord Of The Flies
Why it should no longer be required reading (to the degree that it is).
I remember reading it as a kid, and it didn’t read true to me in the same way that Animal Farm did.
The Cruel “New Normal”
How America arrived at the dumb reopening.
Academia
If it gets a bailout, it should only be under these conditions.
The loan program needs a complete overhaul, beyond these suggestions.
The Social-Distancing Experiment
…has failed.
This reminds me of the old Soviet joke about the kid in a classroom, asking if Marx was the greatest scientist in history. After being assured by the teacher that that was the case, he asked “Well, why didn’t he try this crap on rats first?”
[Update a while later]
Policy and punditry must adapt to new data.
Postmodernism
It’s the latest victim of the plague.
As the old saying goes, it’s an ill wind that blows nobody any good.