All Posts Tagged With: "school choice"
Richman on School Choice
The new book Freedom and School Choice in American Educationincludes a chapter by Freeman editor Sheldon Richman titled “‘Unbounded Liberty, and Even Caprice’: Why ‘School Choice’ Is Dangerous to Education.” The book, edited by Greg Forster and C. Bradley Thompson, is a compilation of papers presented at a 2008 conference sponsored by the Foundation for Educational Choice (formerly the Milton and Rose [...]
2Jun2011 | Tsvetelin M. Tsonevski | 3 comments | ContinuedGovernment Failure: E.G. West on Education
This illuminating book was designed to commemorate the achievements and to spread the ideas of the late Edwin G. West. Professor West, who lived from 1922 to 2001, did pioneering work in the economics and history of education, and his studies have been critical in refuting the pretensions of government education. Those who wish to [...]
8Jul2010 | Antony Flew | 0 comments | ContinuedMy New Hero
A superintendent voids a union contract, fires all the teachers, becomes my personal hero. Of course she can hire the good ones back, but it will be under a new contract.
25Feb2010 | Mike Van Winkle | 2 comments | ContinuedMontessori, Dewey and Capitalism: Educational Theory for a Free Market In Education
For years, school-choice proponents have assessed and reassessed the possibilities of expanding government support for vouchers. Jerry Kirkpatrick’s Montessori, Dewey, and Capitalism: Educational Theory for a Free Market in Education is a refreshing alternative to those tired discussions of political coalitions, legislative machinations, and disparate school-choice programs. Indeed, Kirkpatrick’s book is one of the first [...]
15Oct2009 | Terry Stoops | 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 an Uncommon Woman
Popular literature is full of praises for “the common man,” but I am much more impressed by the men and women who stand apart from the crowd. Some wise observer once said that only three kinds of people exist in the world: a very few who make things happen, a somewhat larger number who watch [...]
1Dec2007 | Lawrence W. Reed | 0 comments | ContinuedThe New Sweden
Waldemar Ingdahl is director of Eudoxa, a liberal think tank in Stockholm, Sweden. The European Social Model is being heavily discussed in Europe. Some still laud it, but its problems are obvious, with low economic growth, an aging population coupled with “pay-as-you-go” pension systems, and widespread persisting unemployment. In Sweden we have already solved this [...]
1Mar2007 | Waldemar Ingdahl | 5 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 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 | ContinuedIndependent Schools at Risk
Jacob Huebert is a student at Grove City College and an intern at FEE. As discontentment with government schools grows, tax-funded “school choice” has emerged as the leading reform proposal. School-choice programs typically include a voucher plan, although some would make direct payments from the government to private schools. Those proposals are intended to give [...]
1Sep1999 | Jacob H. Huebert | 2 comments | ContinuedWhat 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 | Walter E. Williams | 1 comment | ContinuedWhose Kids Are They?
David Boaz is executive vice president of the Cato Institute and author of Libertarianism: A Primer (Free Press). This article is adapted from his foreword to the new edition of The Twelve-Year Sentence: Radical Views of Compulsory Schooling edited by William F. Rickenbacker (Fox and Wilkes). Rereading The Twelve-Year Sentence a quarter-century after it was [...]
1Oct1998 | David Boaz | 1 comment | 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 | ContinuedEducating the Difficult
Whenever the issue of “school choice” comes up for discussion, somebody inevitably will claim that the private sector can’t be trusted to serve the kids who are, for one reason or another, difficult to educate. Government schools are depicted as democratic, egalitarian institutions that take on all comers, including the toughest cases. Private alternatives are [...]
1Nov1997 | Lawrence W. Reed | 0 comments | ContinuedReplace the Monopoly, Not the Superintendent
Mr. Bandow is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and a nationally syndicated columnist. He is the author of several books, most recently, Tripwire: Korea and U.S. Foreign Policy in a Changed World. There’s a lot wrong and not much right with the Washington, D.C., public schools: Buildings aren’t safe, kids are gunned down [...]
1Jan1997 | Doug Bandow | 0 comments | ContinuedIt’s No Manufactured Crisis
A recently published book claims that the growing discontent about public, or government, schools is the result of a “manufactured crisis.” The authors of the book by that name, David C. Berliner and Bruce J. Biddle, maintain that there is no evidence that the schools have declined since the golden era of the 1950s or [...]
1Jul1996 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | Continued-
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