All Posts Tagged With: "school vouchers"
Book Review: Backfire by Bob Zelnick and The Affirmative Action Fraud by Clint Bolick
Backfire by Bob Zelnick Regnery • 1996 • 416 pages • $27.50 The Affirmative Action Fraud by Clint Bolick Cato Institute • 1996 • x + 170 pages • $10.95 paperback Professor Levin teaches in the Department of Philosophy at City College and The Graduate Center of The City University, New York, New York. Despite [...]
1Mar1997 | Michael Levin | 1 comment | ContinuedEducation and the Free Society
Dr. Roche is president of Hillsdale College and author of 12 books. His latest book is The Fall of the Ivory Tower: Government Funding, Corruption, and the Bankrupting of American Higher Education (Regnery Publishing, 1994). From 1966 to 1971, he was director of seminars at the Foundation for Economic Education. From 1971 to 1990, he [...]
1May1996 | George Roche | 1 comment | ContinuedHistory of the Voucher Idea
Professor Flew resides in Reading, England. It is often thought—in fact it has even been said by contributors to The Freeman—that education vouchers were first proposed by Milton Friedman in his Capitalism and Freedom (University of Chicago Press, 1962). But this is not true. Milton Friedman may have been the first person to introduce and [...]
1Jun1995 | Antony Flew | 0 comments | ContinuedVouchers: Politically Correct Money
Copyright © 1995. Dr. North is president of The Institute for Christian Economics in Tyler, Texas. The standard argument in favor of school vouchers is that vouchers will restore lost parental authority over their children’s education. This argument reveals a failure to understand the crucial relationship between moral authority, legal authority, and economic authority. It [...]
1Jun1995 | Gary North | 0 comments | Continued-
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