Yesterday morning the latestresults for 12th graders—the K-12 system’s “final products”—on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) came out, and they were poor, as usual.
Data demonstrate that partisans allow the political leaders they like and dislike to color their views of public policy and that policy support depends not only on political ideology but also on the president who is promoting the policy.
Economists should re-think their assumption that Washington is better able to determine optimal infrastructure investment than officials in hundreds of state and city governments that own and manage the assets.
If the conduct at issue isn’t worth the time and effort of getting a warrant—or the expense and inconvenience of a jury trial—then maybe it’s not worth ruining somebody’s life over either.
