All Posts Tagged With: "public education"

Does 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 | | 2 comments | Continued

Reducing Class Sizes: Other Things Are Not Always Equal

“The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups.” —Henry Hazlitt One frequently hears economists use the phrase “other things equal.” For instance, other [...]

1Jan2002 | | 23 comments | Continued

Education in a Free Society edited by Tibor Machan

Hoover Institution Press · 2000 · 149 pages · $16.95 paperback Reviewed by Karen Y. Palasek Editor Tibor Machan states in his introduction to this collection of four essays that “The primary concern in this book is whether human individuality is compatible with coercive public education.” Each of the four perspectives offered takes a unique [...]

1Dec2001 | | 0 comments | Continued

Freedom of Education: A Civil Liberty

Barry Loberfeld is a freelance writer. One of the most amazing things about the many organizations and individuals who designate themselves “civil libertarians” (with the ACLU, naturally, being the most emblematic) is the utter absence of educational liberty from their shared agenda. It’s not even a blip on their screen. Why? Because it’s not explicitly [...]

1Aug2001 | | 2 comments | Continued

The Pledge versus the Oath

When George W. Bush became president last January, he struck a familiar pose. Raising his right hand before the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, he swore to “preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.” The oath serves to remind us that the United States is a constitutional republic with a federal [...]

1May2001 | | 7 comments | Continued

Capital 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 | | 0 comments | Continued

The High Cost of Government Schooling

Public (government) education in America costs a princely sum, and it isn’t getting any cheaper. But what taxpayers shell out for the government school monopoly doesn’t tell the whole story. What others in society must pay to correct the shortcomings of that failed monopoly is huge and a painful testimony to the need for a [...]

1Feb2001 | | 0 comments | Continued

Power Grab: How the National Education Association Is Betraying Our Children

Consider these words of the late Albert Shanker, long-time president of the American Federation of Teachers. “It’s time to admit that public education operates like a planned economy, a bureaucratic system in which everybody’s role is spelled out in advance and there are very few incentives for innovation and productivity. It’s no surprise that our [...]

1Dec2000 | | 0 comments | Continued

A Constitutional Counterrevolution

Charlotte Twight is a professor of economics at Boise State University. She is the author of Dependent on D.C.: The Rise of Federal Control Over the Lives of Ordinary Americans. Given America’s carefully crafted constitutional restrictions on central government power, how is it that intrusive federal powers over the lives of ordinary Americans took root [...]

1Oct2000 | | 0 comments | Continued

Can the Free Market Provide Public Education?

These remarks were presented at the Children’s Scholarship Fund conference “Freedom and Equal Opportunity in Education,” January 12, 2000, in New York City. The short answer, of course, is: yes, look around. Right now, private enterprise and nonprofit organizations provide all manner of education—from comprehensive schools with classes in the traditional academic subjects, to specialized [...]

1Jun2000 | | 19 comments | Continued

Market Education: The Unknown History

The most pernicious of all the widely held modern beliefs is that education must be provided by the state. “Education is an entitlement!” say nearly all politicians and members of the vast education establishment. Few challenge that assertion. The inseparability of school and state is almost as much a given as the separation of church [...]

1Nov1999 | | 0 comments | Continued

Who Killed Homer? The Demise of Classical Education and the Recovery of Greek Wisdom

Fred Miller teaches the classical Greek language and is professor of philosophy and executive director of the Social Philosophy and Policy Center at Bowling Green State University. Over a decade ago, Allan Bloom’s explosive book, The Closing of the American Mind, opened the floodgates of criticism of American higher education for perverting its ostensible mission [...]

1Jun1999 | | 1 comment | Continued

What American Education Needs

For over four decades the public education establishment has delivered one educational disaster after another. “Solution” after “solution” has fallen far short of promises. The education establishment’s perennial answer to our education problems is more money.

1Apr1999 | | 1 comment | Continued

Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science by Paul R. Gross and Norman Levitt

Johns Hopkins University Press • 1997 • 314 pages • $35.95 cloth; $16.95 paperback Thomas Bertonneau is the author of Declining Standards at Michigan Public Universities and teaches literature at Central Michigan University. Richard Cutler is president of the Michigan Association of Scholars and a former vice president of the University of Michigan. Science, along [...]

1Feb1999 | | 0 comments | Continued

Educational Decarceration

Daniel Hager is a senior research associate with Patrick Henry Associates in East Lansing, Michigan. When I was a teacher I reached a conclusion that put me at odds with the mystique that surrounds government schooling: the most beneficial times during the school year for many of my students were snow days. These kids were [...]

1Jul1998 | | 2 comments | Continued

The 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 | | 0 comments | Continued

Government Schooling: The Bureaucratization of the Mind

In April 1983, the National Commission on Excellence in Education issued its now infamous report, A Nation at Risk. The Commission found that American students were experiencing, among other things, a decline in literacy levels, a diminishing level of science and mathematics skills, and a limited knowledge in the social sciences when compared to American [...]

1May1997 | | 2 comments | Continued
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