Jason Bedrick has an excellent post on Education Next rebutting Valerie Strauss’s ridiculous column on Tax Credit Scholarships.
People should keep their eye on Jason. The force is strong with that one.
Jason Bedrick has an excellent post on Education Next rebutting Valerie Strauss’s ridiculous column on Tax Credit Scholarships.
People should keep their eye on Jason. The force is strong with that one.
I promise to keep my eye on him if he promises not to dress up like a Jedi any more – or, alternatively, to get a costume that isn’t obviously just a bedsheet thrown over his head.
Greg, I don’t make the big bucks like the folks at the Jay P. Greene blog. My three kids got real costumes. For me, a bedsheet had to suffice!
What?!?!? Jay was supposed to be paying us big bucks all these years?
Ummm… the check is in the mail.
I think the costume is awesome.
Chag Purim Sameach.
We are forever grateful for Jason in NH!!!
Funny, I don’t recall an aron kodesh on the Death Star. Perhaps in the director’s cut?
It certainly does sound like a Star Wars character’s name, though.
FYI: Kevin Welner should give himself a Bunkum Award for his response to by rebuttal. My rejoinder to his response is here:
http://educationnext.org/rejoinder-to-washington-posts-primer-on-private-school-tax-credits/
Jason goes back to school:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2013/03/03/neovouchers-a-primer-on-private-school-tax-credits/
Philip, perhaps you missed this: http://educationnext.org/rejoinder-to-washington-posts-primer-on-private-school-tax-credits/
Yes, I went back to school… to teach Prof. Welner a few things.
Twice:
http://educationnext.org/yes-valerie-school-choice-does-help-poor-kids/
Phillip, you may have missed this, but this guy didn’t actually address anything I wrote. He attacks Forster’s paper on completely spurious grounds. He doesn’t bother to read the research that Forster cites and he clearly has no idea how random-assignment studies work. If he made a point worth addressing, I’d address it.
[…] Which probably had something to do with prompting attacks against the pro-opportunity policy from the Washington Post‘s Valerie Strauss. Over at Education Next, the Cato Institute’s Jason Bedrick effectively shot down her arguments (Yes, school choice does help poor kids) and further rebuffed criticisms from Colorado’s own Kevin Welner. (I’ll stick with the sports analogies, and leave the sci-fi ones to the guys at Jay Greene’s blog.) […]
Superb job in Ed Next! Great to see the momentum for scholarship tax credits continue to grow: http://www.ediswatching.org/2013/03/bama-tax-credit-surprise-status-quo-blindsided-by-win-for-needy-kids/
All will remain well as long as the next sequel doesn’t include the revelation that Jedi Jason is the son of Darth Strauss. And the Jar Jar of ed reform, whoever that may be, must be kept FAR away.