All Posts Tagged With: "charter schools"
We Don’t Need No State Education
Finally ending the State’s monopoly — which means taking away the money — will let us bring education back to human scale, with all the respect for individuality that this implies.
19Feb2010 | Sheldon Richman | 17 comments | ContinuedCharter Schools in Action by Chester Finn, Bruno Manno, and Greg Vanourek
Princeton University Press • 2000 • 288 pages • $27.95 With the publication of Charter Schools in Action, the authors aim to provide a definitive study of U.S. charter schooling at the end of the twentieth century, complete with a brief history explaining its origins and some tentative hypotheses about its future. They are, for [...]
1Apr2001 | Andrew J. Coulson | 1 comment | 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 | Continued-
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