All Posts Tagged With: "private schools"
Growing Government Ensures “National Greatness”?
There is widespread belief among politicians, public officials, and pundits that if government doesn’t give us the seeds, nothing will grow. A friend of mine served on our city’s legislative council for eight years. During that time he often heard—in defense of tax-funded business incentives—“If we don’t do something, nothing will happen.” The same belief [...]
21Sep2011 | Arthur E. Foulkes | 6 comments | ContinuedMarket-Based Higher Education
As experience continues to prove that private industry can do things more cost effectively and with better customer satisfaction than governmental entities, debate has shifted to what functions are appropriately in the government’s realm. Over the past several decades various institutions have arisen to challenge the notion that higher education is among the activities that [...]
29Jun2010 | Keith Wade | 1 comment | ContinuedSchool Choice
The overall quality of primary and secondary education received by white students is nothing to write home about. The very fact that 30 percent of college freshmen require remedial education, at a cost of over $2 billion, is pretty good evidence that there is widespread fraud in the conferring of high-school diplomas. That level of [...]
17Jun2009 | Walter E. Williams | 1 comment | ContinuedIn Praise of Educational Pluralism
I often hear it said that if the government did not determine what our children are taught, we would have no way to assure they learned the right things. The idea here is that every child deserves a proper education and that, although government education has its share of problems, at least we can keep [...]
20Jan2009 | Danny Shahar | 3 comments | ContinuedCharacter Crisis Origin in Government Schools
Seven faculty and staff at Spirit Creek Middle School in Augusta, GA have recently been implicated in a sex scandal that was being carried out on school premises during school hours. With principals, teachers, and coaches like these, is it any wonder that so many students are becoming adults with corrupt moral compasses? This is [...]
11Dec2008 | Mason Drake | 0 comments | ContinuedCourt Holds California’s Homeschoolers in Suspense
Anyone interested in the nearly criminal mismanagement of the nation’s government-run schools need only do research on the acronym LAUSD. In March 2006 Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraiogosa gave a speech blasting the LAUSD—Los Angeles Unified School District—for its “culture of complacency” and described the dropout problem in the district as “the new civil rights [...]
1May2008 | Steven Greenhut | 0 comments | ContinuedEnding the Welfare State Through the Power of Private Action
Richard Ebeling is the president of FEE. Despair about the current direction of American public policy is easily understood. In whichever direction we look, government seems to be growing larger and more intrusive. For example, in February the Associated Press (AP) reported that in spite of the 1996 welfare reform, which has reduced the number [...]
1Apr2007 | Richard M. Ebeling | 0 comments | ContinuedDoes Prosperity Depend on Education?
Christopher Lingle is professor of economics at Universidad Francisco Marroquín in Guatemala and global strategist for eConoLytics.com. New Delhi, India—It has become an article of faith that economic progress depends on having an educated citizenry. A corollary is often attached, requiring governments to provide resources to meet this end. However, like so many self-evident truths, [...]
1May2003 | Christopher Lingle | 1 comment | ContinuedBook Reviews – April 2003
Guns and Violence: The English Experience by Joyce Lee Malcolm Harvard University Press • 2002 • 352 pages • $28.00 Reviewed by Clayton Cramer Joyce Lee Malcolm’s new book is not the masterpiece that her previous book, To Keep and Bear Arms: The Origins of an Anglo-American Right, was. Still, there is much to commend, [...]
1Apr2003 | FEE Admin | 0 comments | ContinuedCalifornia’s War on Homeschoolers
Steven Greenhut is a senior editorial writer and columnist at the Orange County Register in Santa Ana, California. I’m routinely astounded by the degree to which Americans will be outraged by government abuses that take place in far-off lands, while remaining uninterested in similar abuses right here in their very midst. My newspaper, the Orange [...]
1Feb2003 | Steven Greenhut | 2 comments | ContinuedEducation and the First Amendment
In June the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that school vouchers do not violate the First Amendment’s prohibition of the establishment of religion. The case arose out of Cleveland’s voucher program. As would be expected, both pro- and anti-voucher forces have engaged in rhetorical combat. One of the forward divisions of the anti-voucher side is Americans [...]
1Sep2002 | Barry Loberfeld | 0 comments | ContinuedSchool Choice via the Universal Tax Credit
School choice—the general concept that parents should have much more freedom and responsibility for their children’s education than they have now—is an idea that has captured the imagination and support of legions of freedom-loving Americans. Where the rubber hits the road, however, is how to achieve it.
1Sep2001 | Lawrence W. Reed | 0 comments | ContinuedCapital Letters
Who’s an Imperialist? To the Editor: Mark Skousen’s “Imperial Science” (January 2001) dismissed the great impact of co-operative efforts between economists and researchers, scientists, and authors from other disciplines. In fact, such cooperative interdisciplinary work is now commonplace. Economists have at least as much to learn from, as they have to contribute to, other disciplines—a [...]
1May2001 | FEE Admin | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Global Education Industry: Lessons from Private Education in Developing Countries
After all the privatizations of the Thatcher years, the British-maintained school system is one of the two largest industries that still remain under state ownership and control. (The other is the National Health Service.) Both are effectively monopolistic and therefore liable to all the notorious faults of monopolies, particularly those run by the government. State [...]
1Sep2000 | Antony Flew | 0 comments | ContinuedA Better Brand of Parent
Marshall Fritz is the founder of the Separation of School & State Alliance in Fresno, California (www.sepschool.org). After World War II, aborigines in New Guinea scraped clearings in the brush in hopes that planes would land and bring “cargo.” They’d seen U.S. forces do similar scrapings, and soon thereafter, great silver birds landed and disgorged [...]
1Sep1999 | Marshall Fritz | 3 comments | ContinuedWhose Choice? Whose Responsibility?
The Wisconsin Supreme Court has given the school-voucher movement a shot in the arm by declaring that tax-funded school choice does not violate the separation of church and state. I always thought the argument that it does violate the separation was wrong. Vouchers would be given directly to parents, and they would decide where to [...]
1Oct1998 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | Continued-
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