All Posts Tagged With: "school vouchers"
Public Schools through the Public Choice Lens
Regarding the state of government (“public”) schooling in the United States today, two facts stand out. The first is that the average amount of money spent per pupil has dramatically increased during the past 35 years and is now one of the highest in the world, and the second is that student achievement, by both [...]
22Sep2010 | Michael Bors | 7 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 | ContinuedEnding the Welfare State Through the Power of Private Action
Richard Ebeling is the president of FEE. Despair about the current direction of American public policy is easily understood. In whichever direction we look, government seems to be growing larger and more intrusive. For example, in February the Associated Press (AP) reported that in spite of the 1996 welfare reform, which has reduced the number [...]
1Apr2007 | Richard M. Ebeling | 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 | ContinuedBacking 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 | ContinuedBook Reviews – April 2003
Guns and Violence: The English Experience by Joyce Lee Malcolm Harvard University Press • 2002 • 352 pages • $28.00 Reviewed by Clayton Cramer Joyce Lee Malcolm’s new book is not the masterpiece that her previous book, To Keep and Bear Arms: The Origins of an Anglo-American Right, was. Still, there is much to commend, [...]
1Apr2003 | FEE Admin | 0 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 | 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 | 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 | ContinuedWho’s Who in the School Voucher Movement
Watching the shifting line-ups in the school voucher contest is revealing. The voucher is one of those insidious “reforms” that its advocates herald as an achievable “step in the right direction.” The direction varies depending on who’s speaking. For some it’s improvement of the government’s monopoly schools through competition. For others, it’s elimination of the [...]
1Nov1999 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedA Better Brand of Parent
Marshall Fritz is the founder of the Separation of School & State Alliance in Fresno, California (www.sepschool.org). After World War II, aborigines in New Guinea scraped clearings in the brush in hopes that planes would land and bring “cargo.” They’d seen U.S. forces do similar scrapings, and soon thereafter, great silver birds landed and disgorged [...]
1Sep1999 | Marshall Fritz | 3 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 | ContinuedVoucher Advocates, Take Heed
As if we needed more proof that with government money come regulations, the U.S. Department of Education says that colleges and universities may not use standardized admissions tests that have a “significant disparate impact” on any race, sex, or national origin. Unless a test is indispensable—a matter to be decided by the department—its use will [...]
1Sep1999 | Sheldon Richman | 0 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 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 | ContinuedGovernment 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 | Thomas E. Lehman | 2 comments | Continued-
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