Newmark's Door

"School is for Wasting Time and Money"

Bryan Caplan doing what he does.

School closures were a disaster for convenience. And while you’ll never hear a “convenience above all” political speech, actions speak louder than words.

"Inside the Massive Effort to Change the Way Kids Are Taught to Read"

That's the great thing about the education establishment in this country: give them 40 or 50 years and usually they'll catch on.

Related: "Phonics, Failure, and the Public Schools" and "School Is for Learning to Read" (the latter is in the NY Times and is gated).

"Guessing C For Every Answer Is Now Enough To Pass The New York State Algebra Exam"

Another aspect of life in 2022 that prompts "You couldn't make this shit up."

"An illustration of how Perverse Incentives work"

From the comments: "Sounds like Goodhart's law in action".

"Biden vs. DeSantis: The Unknown Clash"

The clash is over an overlooked dopiness in American higher education: university accreditation bodies.

"The State of Pronouns in Academia"

With empirical work! (Economics comes out well but not as good as physics.)

"Fit to Print? UNC’s Settlement with Nikole Hannah-Jones is Bad News"

You can't make this up--twenty, no less: "It turns out the $75,000 wasn’t quite enough. As part of her settlement, she somehow managed to secure a bunch of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) sinecures for 20 university administrators. Per the agreement, these bureaucrats will be attached to hiring committees for new university employees."

"Teachers Unions Are Why More Parents Want School Choice"

Yes, among other reasons.

See also "COVID taught 1M parents there are alternatives to failing public schools".

"Rethinking Higher Education"

I'll second this: "All of which suggests it might be an appropriate time to begin to rethink American higher education and examine alternatives to it."

Be glad if you don't have kids or grandkids attending regular New York public schools

"New York’s slimy educrats strike again with Regents question that cannot be named".  (Related: "A New York teacher exposes our state school-system sham — where guessing gets you a pass".)

"A NYC school diploma isn’t worth the paper it’s written on".