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Interview with Marshall Fritz 

The Alliance Story::An Interview With Marshall Fritz by Tammy Drennan Founded in 1994, the Alliance for the Separation of School & State is an organization devoted to educating people about why schooling should be as protected from state interference as… Continue Reading…

The Wild and Free Pigs of the Okefenokee Swamp

Author Unknown   Some years ago, about 1900, an old trapper from North Dakota hitched up some horses to his Studebaker wagon, packed a few possessions — especially his traps — and drove south.   Several weeks later he stopped… Continue Reading…

Public Education versus Liberty: The Pedigree of an Idea

by Michiel Visser   “[E]veryone, after he has been fully trained, will be like his teacher.” — Luke 6:40 That education is in a state of crisis has become something of an axiom. Parents and politicians alike are deeply concerned… Continue Reading…

No Exit:  Statistics

by Linda Schrock Taylor January 4, 2003 Response to my article regarding the lack of educational policies and procedures for “Remediation and Release” of special education students (“No Exit: The “‘Black Hole’ of Special Education”) has been extensive. Letters from… Continue Reading…

No Exit: The “Black Hole” of Special Education

by Linda Schrock Taylor December 5, 2002 Recent news articles have discussed the possibility that two black holes might collide in a few million years. Although an interesting concept, this potential danger pales in the face of a real “black… Continue Reading…

Separation Not Only for Libertarians and Christians Anymore

Growing religious diversity increases need for Separation by Steve Smith Originally published in The Education Liberator, Vol. 3, No. 5, June 1996   One of the fun things I remember about my elementary school was the people who came around giving… Continue Reading…

We Are Losing Our Children

by T. C. Pinckney   Remarks to the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee by T. C. Pinckney Nashville, TN September 18, 2001 The events of a week ago today [destruction of the twin towers in New York] were a terrible… Continue Reading…

Compulsory Attendance

by Mary K. Novello, Ed.D. Last updated March 25, 2008 “Compulsory education is the chink in the armor of capitalist societies: they try to teach children the values of contract and initiative, but base their educational system on compulsion and… Continue Reading…

Great Brain Robbery Seizes Millions of Minds

Hijackers Are Supported by Organized Ignorance by James Ervin Norwood Last updated December 28, 2007 Public Schools Are Flunking Out   Public schools are brain dead and on life support; so let𠏋 pull the plug on them, give them a… Continue Reading…

Educational Vouchers: The Double Tax

by Gary North Foundation for Economic Education Saturday, May 1, 1976 Excerpt: “The problems of American public education are the problems associated with any system of government-enforced, tax-supported coercive wealth redistribution: the system of financing conflicts with the expressly stated… Continue Reading…