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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…
by Marshall Fritz Last updated April 18, 2007 Originally published in The Education Liberator, Vol. 3, No. 2, February/March 1997 How Might the United States End School-by-Government and Return to Honest Education? Marshall Fritz — December, 2003 I believe the transition… Continue Reading…
by Frederick C. Foote Last updated March 25, 2008 As the homeschoolers of five young children, my wife and I occasionally find ourselves in conversations where salt and light comes up. Homeschooling has some advantages over traditional school settings and… Continue Reading…
by Marshall Fritz and Cathy Duffy March 2002 As Americans reduce government involvement in education, we can expect these changes: 1. Parents will be reinforced. Parents will send their children to schools where they are supported by teachers, not… Continue Reading…
By Tammy Drennan Last updated March 26, 2010 Note: If you’re a combatant, please give some thought to the following. If you know a combatant, please share this with him or her. You probably know there’s a war going… Continue Reading…
by Neal McCluskey July 10, 2009 Published at Cato at Liberty Excerpts: “A YouTube video that catches Bob Chanin, retiring general counsel of the National Education Association, calling right-wing groups “bastards” for attacking his soon-to-be-former employer has recently been making the rounds. Not… Continue Reading…
by Tammy Drennan Last updated March 7, 2007 “The only way to end the political battles over schooling is to depoliticize the schools. And the only way to do that is to separate school and state.” – Jeff Jacoby Responding… Continue Reading…
by Tammy Drennan Last updated April 9, 2007 Vouchers that would pay for parents to send their children to public or private schools are the latest in a long line of reform movements, all of which involve entitlement programs, and… Continue Reading…
by Tammy Drennan Last updated October 1, 2007 Dana Gioia, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, gave the commencement speech this year at Stanford University (reprinted in short in the 7/19/07 Wall Street Journal) – in which he… Continue Reading…