Volume 6, Number 3 (1982) A significant amount of opposition surrounded the development of state supported public secondary and higher education in New York State throughout the eighth decade of the nineteenth century. Opposition appeared within various sectors of the social structure. However, this paper will concern itself with the opponents who
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It seems like the media will never stop promoting the myth that public school teachers are “underpaid.” The most recent example is the front-page story in Time , “This Is What It’s Like to Be a Teacher in America.” Time tells of a woman who makes $55,000 per year teaching but works two other jobs in order to “pay the bills.” The article includes
I met Daniel Lahoud in Rosario (Argentina) in 2008. He had submitted a very interesting paper to the International Conference I organize every two years – “The Austrian School of Economics in the 21st Century.” From then on he had participated in every Austrian Conference with the exception of 2014. That year the economic situation in Venezuela
Yet another Florida high school went into lockdown on the morning of Thursday, December 6th with the terrorizing threat of an active-shooter on campus. The difference this time: the shooter was completely made up. Lake Brantley High School (LBHS), situated in Seminole County, has adopted a policy to prepare for school crises whereby students must
New York City is gearing up to tighten state controls on the curriculum at private schools for Orthodox Jews known as yeshivas. Some activists against these so-called “ultra-Orthodox” schools claim that they spend too much time on religious and cultural instruction, and too little time on more “secular” topics. The city has now taken up the cause
When governments subsidize goods and services — or provide them directly through government-owned institutions — the effect is to lower the price to consumers, thus increasing demand. Put another way: if the price of, say, a college education is near-zero to the consumer, then consumers are likely to demand a college education in much higher
How Economics Professors Can Stop Failing Us Steven Payson Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2017, xiii + 372 pp . Steven Payson, the author of this provocatively title book, is a former career federal government economist who has the temerity to argue that economics could be a useful science if mainstream academic economist theoreticians would simply
Last March, protestors at Middlebury College in Vermont sent professor Allison Stanger to the hospital with a neck injury. Stanger’s crime? She had the nerve to ask the protestors to allow the conservative/libertarian author Dr. Charles Murray to speak, and then to engage in a debate after his speech. According to news accounts, after about 20
In Episode 4, Season 3 of “Last Chance U,” Coach Jason Brown told his players, “Ignorance is life threatening, man.” The Independence Juco coach said, “Eighty-nine percent of NFL and NBA players are bankrupt three years after retirement.” “I know you guys can’t comprehend half that shit,” the coach yells, referring to what is being taught in
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