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?
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Tyler,
The HP link appears to not work. Don’t know if it’s your link or their site, though.
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.
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.
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.
The cyborg article was weak and oversold, like 99% of popular coverage of anything having to do with neuroscience.
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