The price of good teachers
Parents, principals, education experts all seem to agree that teacher quality is the single most important determinant of a child’s education, considerably more important than class size. The Obama...
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My colleague David Leonhardt at Economix analyzes new government data on pay trends for 2010. It was a pretty bad year for everybody. But the statistics underscore that an education remains as...
View ArticleThe price of development
I was interviewed on Poptech about the price of education in India, fertilizer in Kenya and human life in Zimbabwe.
View ArticleThe Price of Everything in college
Joshua Kim from Dartmouth College recommends The Price of Everything for a College introductory economics course, “something to give some life to the textbooks and the supply and demand curves.” He...
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Has educastion lost its punch?
Paul Krugman suggests we can no longer count on education to increase workers’ prosperity.
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