On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Pejman Yousefzadeh and I are joined by Andrew Kelly, to discuss Sticks and the Bully Pulpit: Lessons from a Half-Century of Federal Efforts to Improve America’s Schools. In the podcast we discuss the federal role in education and ways to move past traditional, and often stale, debating points regarding the federal government’s responsibilities in education policy (what works versus what doesn’t, the constitutionality of federal involvement, etc.).
I hope you will discuss vouchers. It seems clear to me that the crux of the problem is that education is government controlled. Parents have no choice, and the poor are trapped in terrible schools.