Pieces on education policy

In the last couple of months, I've published a couple of new articles on education policy. In the Times Educational Supplement, I argued that profit in education is important to ensure equity, and at the Spectator Coffee House I discussed myths and realities in Finnish Education, while also replying to Shadow Education Secretary Stephen Twigg who claimed that for-profit schools have led to falling standards in Sweden.

New evidence from the Swedish voucher reform

I blog about a new paper on the Swedish voucher reform, which finds positive long-term educational benefits from school competition. It also finds no significant effects on costs, turning the achievement gains into productivity gains, and that there are no different general-equilibrium impacts of for-profit and non-profit competition.