American economist
The state House budget would restore salary supplements for public school educators with a master’s degree. Decades of empirical research failed to establish a relationship between master’s degrees and student…
Today, Rick Hess of the American Enterprise Institute released the 2019 RHSU Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings. The rankings examine the influence of academics who write about education policy. Only two scholars…
Yesterday, I wrote about a new National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) study written by researchers at Duke University. In “The Growing Segmentation of the Charter School Sector in North…
“The Growing Segmentation of the Charter School Sector in North Carolina” is a new National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) paper written by Helen Ladd, Charles Clotfelter, and John Holbein…
Read TIME magazine’s latest cover story, “It’s Time to Pay College Athletes,” and you might recognize one of the quoted experts. [T]he players with the talent remain out of the…
In their new study, “Racial and Economic Diversity in North Carolina’s Schools: An Update,” Charles Clotfelter, Helen Ladd, and Jacob Vigdor of the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke…
A big deal in education policy discussions is how many students take Algebra I in the 8th grade. From 2002 to 2004, CMS had a policy of assigning even “moderately-performing…
Many of North Carolina’s largest school districts have debated and/or implemented policies that route a significant number of eighth-grade students into Algebra I, a course that traditionally reserved for ninth-graders. …
All candidates have filed, and now it’s time for North Carolina office seekers to make their pitches to voters who will head to the polls in May and November. John…
Those of you who enjoyed Duke professor Charles Clotfelter’s recent John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society presentation about big-time college sports might want to peruse this item from Inside Higher Ed:…
Duke professors Charles Clotfelter and Philip Cook offer this letter to News & Observer readers this morning: The statement from the executive director of the state lottery quoted in the…
The Wake County Republican Men’s Club learned more this week about the clear differences between conservative and liberal public policies when Becki Gray, John Locke Foundation Vice President for Outreach,…