An Associate Professor of Economics at the Naval Postgraduate School, Ryan Sullivan, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss Sullivan’s recent op-ed, which outlines why schools should resume in-person classes.
“End the School Shutdown,” an op-ed Sullivan co-wrote with David R. Henderson in the Wall Street Journal, is available now.
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“The downsides of keeping schools and colleges closed on kids have not been appreciated enough,” he says.
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“If we hadn’t had the accountability regime and the choices that have come along with it, I believe we would have had even less improvement,” says Chester E. Finn Jr.
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“These are huge costs that we’ve asked moms and kids to bear for very little public health benefit from having schools closed…the average student could lose between $61,000 to $88,000 of lifetime earnings.”
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