All Posts Tagged With: "public schools"
The Effrontery of the "Open Space" Movement
New Hampshire is called the “Live Free or Die”
state. It has garnered such a reputation as a bastion
of freedom that the Porcupine members
of the Free State Project selected it as the place to which
they would like to relocate in order to live more independently
and more productively.
A Lesson from the Plains
Recent decades have not been kind to rural America. Technological advances in agriculture have resulted in output that can be produced by fewer and fewer people. This has resulted in the depopulation of many rural communities. Diminishing populations have forced many rural communities to consolidate their public schools in order to generate the necessary cost [...]
1May2005 | Mark Ahlseen | 1 comment | ContinuedSeparate the Professions and the State
Lewis Andrews (lew@yankeeinstitute.org) is executive director of the Yankee Institute for Public Policy in Hartford, Connecticut. Since the early 1990s, and even through the collapse of the stock-market bubble, the American economy has continued to experience remarkable increases in worker productivity, both in manufacturing, which now accounts for 14 percent of the nation’s output, and [...]
1Dec2004 | Lewis M. Andrews | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Reviews – September 2004
The Company of Strangers: A Natural History of Economic Life by Paul Seabright Princeton University Press • 2004 • 304 pages • $29.95 Reviewed by Richard M. Ebeling One of the most profound insights of economics is that the activities of billions of people can be coordinated without central direction and without most of these [...]
1Sep2004 | FEE Admin | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Reviews – June 2004
Principles of Politics Applicable to All Governments by Benjamin Constant Liberty Fund • 2003 • 558 pages • $22 hardcover; $12 paperback Reviewed by Richard M. Ebeling Nowhere does one find such clear and lucid expositions and defenses of human liberty as those found among the French classical liberals of the nineteenth century, a group [...]
1Jun2004 | FEE Admin | 6 comments | ContinuedSchool and State: A Neat Solution to the Neatby Dispute
Daniel Hager is a writer and consultant in Lansing, Michigan. Before there was Rudolf Flesch there was Hilda Neatby. In 1955 Flesch published Why Johnny Can’t Read, a bestseller that charged the U.S. educational system with malfeasance for not correctly teaching young students how to read. Two years earlier Hilda Neatby (1904–75), a University of [...]
1Dec2003 | Daniel Hager | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Reviews – June 2003
Dependent on D.C.: The Rise of Federal Control Over the Lives of Ordinary Americans by Charlotte Twight St. Martin’s Press/Palgrave • 2002 • 512 pages • $26.95 hardcover; $17.95 paperback Reviewed by James Bovard Charlotte Twight has written an excellent book to help Americans understand how the federal government is insidiously seizing control of their lives, year by year, edict [...]
1Jun2003 | 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 | ContinuedHow Much Do the Public Schools Waste?
Governments in the United States currently spend about 4 percent of gross domestic product on “public” schools.1 Those schools also employ about 4 percent of the nation’s workforce. Although few will admit it, public education is clearly an anachronistic, socialist institution, with all of the characteristics of a typical Soviet enterprise. As such, one would [...]
1Jan2003 | John T. Wenders | 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 | ContinuedCan a Feminist Homeschool Her Child?
“Welcome to my home school—my private, little rebellion against the enemies of educational excellence and the forces of feminism who say a woman’s place is in the paying workplace.” —ISABEL LYMAN “A Mother’s Day of Home Schooling” In a peaceful mutiny against the quality and content of government education, a growing number of parents are [...]
1Feb2002 | Wendy McElroy | 4 comments | ContinuedEducation 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 | Karen Y. Palasek | 0 comments | ContinuedPeaceable Conflict Resolution
Scarcity is the condition where human wants exceed the means to satisfy those wants. Human wants seldom reveal their bounds, while the means to satisfy human wants are indeed limited. As a result, scarcity’s enduring legacy is conflict, and one of the conflict issues is: who will have use rights to goods and services? A [...]
1Oct2001 | Walter E. Williams | 1 comment | ContinuedToward an Educational Renaissance
Chris Cardiff is a homeschooling father of three spirited girls, a trustee of the California Homeschool Network, and a vice president of AOL. None of these groups—including his family—necessarily endorses his views. Can parents be trusted to educate their own children? The underlying assumption of America’s vast government school system is that they cannot. Yet [...]
1May2001 | Chris Cardiff | 2 comments | ContinuedAffirmative Chemical Action
In my last column I showed that caffeine is the most widely used mind-altering drug in America, that its use is endorsed by the government, and that the public-school system, allied with the beverage industry, has become one of America’s major drug delivery systems. In this column I will show that the popular enthusiasm and [...]
1Mar2001 | Thomas Szasz | 0 comments | ContinuedThe 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 | Lawrence W. Reed | 0 comments | ContinuedFederal Control of Education Needed?
The New York Times recently apologized to readers for its cavalier treatment of the facts in the Wen Ho Lee case. If that editorial failure merited an apology, the Times should be refunding readers’ money for publishing Leon Botstein’s September 19 op-ed on education. Botstein claims that local control is causing our public-school problems and [...]
1Feb2001 | Andrew J. Coulson | 0 comments | Continued-
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