Archive for Chris Cardiff
The Paradox of Carnegie Libraries
Chris Cardiff is a homeschooling father of three spirited girls and a vice president of AOL. Neither AOL nor his family necessarily endorses his views. People with a weak grasp of history are aghast when someone questions one of their fundamental assumptions. Questioning the public-goods theory of government-owned-and-operated libraries seems to shut down a conversation [...]
1Oct2001 | Chris Cardiff | 2 comments | ContinuedToward an Educational Renaissance
Chris Cardiff is a homeschooling father of three spirited girls, a trustee of the California Homeschool Network, and a vice president of AOL. None of these groups—including his family—necessarily endorses his views. Can parents be trusted to educate their own children? The underlying assumption of America’s vast government school system is that they cannot. Yet [...]
1May2001 | Chris Cardiff | 2 comments | ContinuedThe Seduction of Homeschooling Families
Do the public school authorities feel threatened by homeschooling? Judging by their efforts to lure homeschooling families into dependence on local school districts, the answer is apparently yes. For the last several years, homeschooling has been the fastest growing educational alternative in the country. Estimates of its growth rate typically range from 15 to 25 [...]
1Mar1998 | Chris Cardiff | 21 comments | ContinuedEducation: What About the Poor?
In various forms, the question “what do we do about the poor?” outstrips all others as the most frequently asked question about separating school and state. The implicit assumption, only natural after 60 years of the welfare state and 150 years of government control of education, is that government is the only entity capable of [...]
1Jul1996 | Chris Cardiff | 1 comment | Continued-
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