All Posts Tagged With: "separation of school and state"
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 | ContinuedJohn Dewey and the Decline of American Education
by Henry T. Edmondson, III Reviewed by Terry Stoops
1Jul2007 | FEE Admin | 2 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 | ContinuedFreedom of Education: A Civil Liberty
Barry Loberfeld is a freelance writer. One of the most amazing things about the many organizations and individuals who designate themselves “civil libertarians” (with the ACLU, naturally, being the most emblematic) is the utter absence of educational liberty from their shared agenda. It’s not even a blip on their screen. Why? Because it’s not explicitly [...]
1Aug2001 | Barry Loberfeld | 2 comments | ContinuedThe Graves of Academe by Richard Mitchell
The Akadine Press • 1999 • 229 pages • $15.95 paperback Richard Mitchell is back in print! This is a new printing of Richard Mitchell’s 1981 book, one that I found irresistible back then and still regard as one of the most devastating, clear-eyed attacks on America’s pompous education establishment ever written. Mitchell, still alive [...]
1Mar2001 | George C. Leef | 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 | ContinuedHow to Separate School and State: A Primer
Mr. Dewey is president of the National Scholarship Center, in Washington, D.C., a research and information clearinghouse on privately funded voucher programs. The views expressed here are his own. A forceful case for eliminating the role of government in education has been stated in the previous article. This essay will provide an introductory answer to [...]
1Jul1996 | Douglas Dewey | 2 comments | ContinuedEducation: What About the Poor?
In various forms, the question “what do we do about the poor?” outstrips all others as the most frequently asked question about separating school and state. The implicit assumption, only natural after 60 years of the welfare state and 150 years of government control of education, is that government is the only entity capable of [...]
1Jul1996 | Chris Cardiff | 1 comment | Continued-
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