Last week, I a lot of fun discussing the de rigueur issue of bank capital requirements with various people. I especially thank Miles Kimball and Josh Hendricksen.… Read more “Higher Education Should Be Funded by Cash and Equity”
Tag: Education
IQ Tales
In a previous post, I had this to say: I have no data on this at my fingertips, but my intuition tells me that if Head Start’s… Read more “IQ Tales”
Against Constructivism
Arnold Kling comments today on the latest winner of a TED prize, a $1 million prize awarded to an “individual with a creative and bold vision to… Read more “Against Constructivism”
The Evolution of Learning
I’ve been trying, and failing, to write a satisfactory post about the US education system for quite some time now, and I thought it would get easier… Read more “The Evolution of Learning”
Too Much Aggregation
Update: My quality control department — which consists of one guy who lives in a different country, and gets paid nothing — alerted me in the comments… Read more “Too Much Aggregation”
The Best Laid Plans…
Out of the myriad of topics I have committed myself to write about (either publicly on the blog, or personally), I haven’t really been able to find… Read more “The Best Laid Plans…”
The Curse of Hyperbolic Discounting
I think it is fair to say that the left-wingers over at Balloon Juice are not very happy with me, which is understandable…but(!) hopefully this will help… Read more “The Curse of Hyperbolic Discounting”
…and the Marginal Cost of Education Falls!
A big thanks to Mark Thoma!
Raising the PISA level 15.18%…
…correlates with a one hundred trillion dollar net present value return on investment. Or so says Rick Hanushek and Ludger Wossemann, of the OECD Programme for International… Read more “Raising the PISA level 15.18%…”