Teaching to the Test Bleg Bryan Caplan By Bryan Caplan, Feb 22 2016 SHARE POST: I’m looking for good empirical work measuring the prevalence and effects of “teaching to the test.” Nothing good pops up on Google Scholar. Help!
Feb 22 2016 Labor Market Brad DeLong's Distorted View of Wealth David Henderson He [Thomas Piketty] saw five striking facts: First, ownership of private wealth--with its power to command resources, dictate where and how people would work, and shape politics--was always highly concentrated. This is the second sentence of Brad DeLong's "The Melting Away of North Atlantic Social Democracy." You migh... 20 Read More
Feb 22 2016 Liberty Congratulations to the Free State Movement Scott Sumner Last weekend I gave a talk up at the Liberty Forum in Manchester, New Hampshire. While there, I learned more about the Free State Movement, an idea about which I was only dimly aware. The following is from memory, so there might be a few errors. The movement began about 15 years ago when Yale grad student Jason Sore... 9 Read More
Feb 22 2016 Economics of Education Teaching to the Test Bleg Bryan Caplan I'm looking for good empirical work measuring the prevalence and effects of "teaching to the test." Nothing good pops up on Google Scholar. Help! 4 Read More