All Posts Tagged With: "private schools"

Whose 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 | | 0 comments | Continued

The 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 | | 24 comments | Continued

Property Rights in the Family and Beyond

In 1991, when I was putting together The Fortune Encyclopedia of Economics, an economist friend sent me a story from the Sesame Street Parent’s Guide. I liked it so much that I had my research assistant, Janet Beales, write a shortened version for the Encyclopedia. We titled it Property Rights for Sesame Street. Here’s the [...]

1Feb1997 | | 0 comments | Continued

Restoring Parental Responsibility for Education

I would like all children to enjoy the benefits of schools chosen by their parents. If we learn a lesson from our own history it could be possible in very short time. In America we don’t use the government to run the churches, and considering our diversity, we have admirable religious harmony. I am a [...]

1Jul1996 | | 1 comment | Continued

The Virtues of Competition

Competition is a universal and extremely powerful force. Long before we began to record history, man was competing for food, mates, and territory. Later, we found ourselves competing for jobs, resources, customers, victories in athletic contests, and awards in many different fields of human endeavor. Competition in one form or another is inevitable as long [...]

1Jul1996 | | 0 comments | Continued

Vouchers: Competition or Conformity?

Miss Erdmann is a freshman at Grove City College in Pennsylvania. The public is aware of the problems plaguing the public schools, and increasingly it has little faith that the system will improve. In fact, in a 1992 Gallup poll, people were asked to assign a letter grade to the public school system as a [...]

1Aug1995 | | 0 comments | Continued

The Educational Octopus

Every politically controlled educational system will inculcate the doctrine of state supremacy sooner or later. . . . Once that doctrine has been accepted, it becomes an almost superhuman task to break the stranglehold of the political power over the life of the citizen. It has had his body, property and mind in its clutches [...]

1Feb1995 | | 0 comments | Continued

The Case for Religious Schools

The Reverend Mr. Brustat is Pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church and Trinity Christian School, Scarsdale, New York. The early settlers came to these shores impelled by the strong desire to worship God in their own way. Our institutions were forged by a people who put their religion at the center of life’s concerns. Our history [...]

1May1956 | | 0 comments | Continued

The Case for the Private School

Mr, Schuyler is editor of the New York edition of the Pittsburgh Courier. A century ago education was almost entirely privately supported and controlled throughout the United States. Indeed, it was not until the early years of the nineteenth century that the first free school (for Negroes, incidentally) was established in New York City. Schools [...]

1Mar1956 | | 0 comments | Continued
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