All Posts Tagged With: "free-market education"
Charter 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 | ContinuedLeonard E. Read, Crusader
If you had known Leonard E. Read in the 1930s, you would probably not have picked him as a future crusader for the freedom philosophy. Charismatic, energetic, debonair, he was a businessman, an organization man, a Chamber of Commerce man. In 1932, in the depth of the Depression, he became manager of the Western Division [...]
1Sep1998 | Bettina Bien Greaves | 2 comments | ContinuedThe Gift of a Child: The Promise of Freedom
Clark Durant currently serves on the State Board of Education in Michigan and is the immediate past president of the Board. He is also the chairman of the Cornerstone Schools. He and his wife, the former Susan Sparks, have four children. A child. What a blessing. Laughter. A sense of discovery and curiosity. Faith—at first—that [...]
1Jun1997 | Clark Durant | 0 comments | Continued-
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