Why Won’t This Pig Fly? I’ve Tried Everything . . .

By: catoinstitute (Diary)  |  October 18th at 01:04 PM  | 

Posted by Adam Schaeffer It’s fascinating to read Progressives as they think through a difficult policy problem. Kevin Drum writes (at Mother Jones!) that we can’t improve education or mitigate poverty: “I continue to think that the biggest problem here is simply that no one has any really compelling answers. . . You can go down the list of every ed reform ever touted, and | Read More »

Has Obama Lost the Confidence of Black Citizens on Education Reform?

By: catoinstitute (Diary)  |  September 21st at 02:27 PM  | 

By Adam Schaeffer Polls consistently indicate that President Obama has lost proportionally more ground on job approval with white and Hispanic than with black Americans. But data from question-experiments within the yearly Education Next/Harvard poll suggest the opposite in regard to Obama’s influence on education policy opinions. Obama’s policy influence with black respondents has dropped significantly more than it has with respondents overall; Obama’s position | Read More »