All Posts Tagged With: "public school"

Looking in the Mirror

Quite frequently, I hear, “How do you justify working at a state university and holding libertarian views? That’s hypocritical!” The question is not as easy to answer as I would like–a fact that makes the accusation understandable (but, I hope, in the final analysis untrue). My employer, George Mason University, is indeed a government-created and [...]

23Sep2009 | Donald J. Boudreaux | 35 comments | Continued

School 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 | Continued

In 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 | Continued

Government Schools and the Housing Mess

The Law of Unintended Consequences is a fascinating thing. You can never be entirely sure what the second-, third-, etc.- order effects of any action will be. This is especially so with government policy because centralized decision-making can do so much damage to so many people. That ought to humble the politicians and bureaucrats, but [...]

1Jun2008 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | Continued

Cultural Competence and Your Child

A buzz term is appearing with increased frequency in the literature and programs surrounding education at both the public-school and university levels: cultural competence. Parents would do well to ask, “What is it, and how could it affect my children?” The term “cultural competence” first arose in connection with health care, where a standard definition is: [...]

1Sep2007 | Wendy McElroy | 2 comments | Continued

A Different Story

In the days when there was still a pretense that the public school system was actually concerned with education, one of the main elements of instruction was to make sure that pupils could remember a series of important historical dates and their significance. It was thought that everyone should know why dates such as 1492, [...]

1Jan2007 | Stephen Davies | 2 comments | Continued

Backing the Wrong Horse: How Private Schools Are Good for the Poor

James Tooley is professor of education policy at the University of Newcastle, director of the E. G.West Centre, and coauthor of “Private Education Is Good for the Poor: A Study of Private Schools Serving the Poor in Low-Income Countries” (Cato Institute). Last fall the High-Level Plenary Meet­ing of the UN General Assembly brought together more [...]

1May2006 | James Tooley | 8 comments | Continued

Competition in Education: The Case of Reading

Mr. Hager is a senior research associate with Patrick Henry Associates, a consulting firm. An earlier report on H.O.P.E. Academy appeared in the June 1992 issue of The Freeman. The nature of accountability in the public and private sectors is fundamentally different. Perhaps nowhere is the contrast more vivid than in education, particularly the teaching [...]

1Apr1997 | Daniel Hager | 2 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 | George S. Schuyler | 0 comments | Continued

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