The effectiveness of the ARRA depends, quite simply, on the stimulus spending occurring in a timely fashion.

This post by Rick Hess is a response to Fawn Johnson's post on the National Journal blog, "Education Experts."

The normal way that free societies encourage "responsible" behavior when it comes to the cost of services is to allow sellers to set a price and buyers to decide whether they're willing to pay it.

So the stimulus--the so-called American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 or ARRA--is starting to wind down. What are the results?

Through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the federal government will spend an unprecedented amount of money on education--nearly $100 billion. Will this money lead to meaningful reform of our K-12 public education system?

While there has been much discussion in the media about the potential long-term negative impact of some health care reform proposals pending in Congress on the U.S. fiscal deficit, scant attention has been paid to the potential impact of the recently enacted stimulus bill on the long-term deficit.

The second report of the AEI Education Stimulus Watch (ESW) series examines whether the stimulus's unparalleled federal investment in schooling is yielding innovation and improvement or merely subsidizing the status quo.

This second Education Stimulus Watch reports on the key education portions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act by tracking their contributions to the legislation's three points of leverage for reform.

Over the next two years, the federal government, through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), will spend an unprecedented amount on education.