Tag: Marshall Fritz
by Marshall Fritz Last updated April 12, 2007 As bedtime nears, mom says to three-year-old Johnny, “Red pajamas, or blue pajamas?” Giving Johnny a small choice usually deflects him from the larger question of whether or not to fight… Continue Reading…
Part 1: How to find allies without energizing opponents – and – Part 2: Revolution’s tough choice: Practical, Prompt, Prudent By Marshall Fritz Originally published in The Education Liberator, Vol. 1, No. 5, February 1996 SUMMARY: Part 1 describes micro-change,… Continue Reading…
Comentario de Marshall Fritz Mayo 12 del 2000 Originalmente diseñado para ser leído ante el Club Kiwanis de East Fresno, California. English version Una niña de tercer grado me dio una gran sorpresa cuando le pregunté por qué le gustaba… Continue Reading…
by Marshall Fritz Presented to E. Fresno Kiwanis Club, May 12, 2000 en español A third-grade girl in a rural two-room schoolhouse surprised me with her answer to the question of why she likes her school: Because the students are… Continue Reading…
by Marshall Fritz Originally published in The Education Liberator, Vol. 2, No. 6, July 1996 Many freedom lovers believe that tax-funded vouchers will improve schooling by adding competition. Some focus on the teachers unions as The Big Problem and see vouchers… Continue Reading…
by Marshall Fritz Originally published in The Education Liberator, Vol. 2, No. 6, July 1996 The debate over tax-funded school vouchers historically has been framed with two sides: Dr. Milton Friedman and fellow freedom lovers up against a huge education lobby… Continue Reading…
by Marshall Fritz Last updated June 21, 2007 Vouchers will harm education in four ways: 1. Vouchers come with “strings attached.” These soon become chains. 2. Vouchers expand dependency to self-reliant families now paying for private schooling.… Continue Reading…
By Marshall Fritz Last updated May 16, 2007 Originally published in The Education Liberator, Vol. 1, No. 1, September 1995 In America, local governments started absorbing independent schools in the 1830s. “State schooling” became dominant within three decades. Government-run schooling is… Continue Reading…
by Marshall Fritz Last updated August 11, 2008 Originally published in The Education Liberator, Vol. 2, No. 6, July 1996 The government education monopoly is school welfare, and tax-funded vouchers are the Typhoid Mary of education reforms, spreading dependency and regulation… Continue Reading…
Dinner with Margaret Thatcher; “Direction Challenged” in the Bronx; Round & Round with the Voucher-ites By Marshall Fritz Last updated February 21, 2008 Originally published in The Education Liberator, Vol. 2, No. 5, June 1996 Overview Nineteen hard-pushing days of… Continue Reading…