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| Alliance for the Separation of School and State |
| Milton and Rose D. Friedman Foundation |
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EducationalFreedom.com
News and commentary on education, homeschooling, and parental rights. |
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GetTheKidsOut
A Christian Education Resolution |
| Maybe We Would Be Amazed |
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A National Wealth Tax to Fund Education?, by George C. Leef, 25 Mar 2005
"... public education follows a socialist recipe and we get educational results that are the equivalent of Soviet-built cars. ... Poor people can buy high-quality food, clothing, and other necessities because they get the benefit of a free market in those things. For good education, what they need is a free market in schools. " |
Are Southern Baptists About To Abandon Government Schools?, by Steven Yates, 29 May 2004
"... the government schools initially established in Massachusetts by Horace Mann and his Unitarian cohorts followed what has become known as the 'Prussian model,' holding that the individual should be educated into the service of the omnipotent state. ... Nowhere does the U.S. Constitution mention education as a federal responsibility. The Framers considered education to be a matter for states and local communities to undertake." |
Book Review: The Global Education Industry: Lessons from Private Education in Developing Countries by James Tooley, by Antony Flew, The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty, Sep 2000
Related Topics: Brazil, India
"The findings ... should prove invaluable to ... those ... who are working to ... introduce competition into the provision of education services. ... In helping to undermine the intellectual support for government education and ... demonstrating that private enterprise is providing superior education alternatives ... James Tooley has done truly valuable work." |
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Democracy and Government Schools, by Sheldon Richman, Freedom Daily, Jan 2007
Related Topic: Democracy
"A free market in education requires liberty on both the supply side and the demand side. Entrepreneurs have to be free to offer any education service, subject only to the verdict of parents, who in turn must be free to spend their own (not the taxpayers') money as they wish. Only under these circumstances are schools really accountable to the parents." |
| Freedom of Education, by Jacob G. Hornberger, Mar 1993 |
| Freeing the Education Market, by Sheldon Richman, Mar 1993 |
| Monopoly, Competition, and Educational Freedom, by Jacob G. Hornberger, Mar 2000 |
Separating school and state, by Jeff Jacoby, The Boston Globe, 12 Jun 2005
"There is nothing indispensable about a state role in education. Parents don't expect the government to provide their children's food or clothing or medical care; there is no reason why it must provide their schooling. ... Imagine how diverse and lively American education would be if it were liberated from government control." |
The Freedom to Reject the Best, by Jim Fedako, Mises.org Daily Article, 8 Aug 2006
"A free market system of education would create for those who seek different options a system that encourages the implementation of the spectrum of educational choices best viewed as experiments, just as each new product, service, store, etc., is a market experiment. The successful experiments become the market standard that new entrepreneurs seek to surpass." |
| The Need for Educational Freedom in the Nation’s Capital, by Casey J. Lartigue Jr., Cato Institute Policy Analysis, 10 Dec 2002 |
The Trouble with Vouchers, by Joseph Sobran, 11 Sep 1997
"Education, after all, is largely thought control. Unthinking people who merely repeat clichés will tell you they are all in favor of the one and absolutely opposed to the other. But it's precisely because schools do control what children and adolescents think that the power of doing so, like most forms of power, should be dispersed in private hands rather than concentrated in the state." |
Vouchers and Educational Freedom: A Debate, by Joseph L. Bast, Cato Policy Analysis, 12 Mar 1997
Joseph L. Bast and David Harmer versus Douglas Dewey |
Vouchers or School Choice?, by Sheldon Richman, 12 Nov 2007
Examines the recent school vouchers vote in Utah and explains how only education entrepreneurs, free from government interference, can provide real choice and innovation
"The way to create school choice is not to give the state more excuses to regulate the private schools. That's what vouchers would do. Look at the failed Utah initiative. It would have required private schools to 'give a formal national test every year' to students. ... That would limit innovation and make the private schools more like the public schools. Some choice." |
W(h)ither Public Schools?, by Sheldon Richman, Separating School & State, 1994
Chapter 1, made available online on tenth anniversary of the book's publication |
| We Need Freedom, Not School Standards, by Sheldon Richman, Jun 1996 |
What’s Wrong with Public Schools?, by Sheldon Richman, Separating School & State, 25 Mar 2005
Related Topic: Taxation
Excerpt from chapter 2
"In a private education market, parents, if need be, could even send their children to one school to study French and to another to study math. The market is the most flexible arrangement for satisfying consumers that can be imagined. It is precisely that flexibility that is missing in bureaucracy, whether controlled democratically or not." |
Why Johnny Can't Add: The U.S. Department of Education continues to endorse "fuzzy math"--proof of fuzzy thinking, by Williamson M. Evers, Hoover Digest, 2000
"These federal recommendations are for kindergarten through high school, which has serious consequences. ... This whole controversy was born in bureaucratic overreach. The Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 forbids federally determined curricula. The U.S. Constitution doesn't authorize it, and the results have been harmful and foolish." |
Why Not a Free Market in Education?, by Jacob G. Hornberger, 25 Mar 2005
"At a local level, public schooling consists of a government board of successful politicians. That should make anyone suspicious. The board plans the educational decisions of thousands of children in a top-down, command-and-control process. ... I challenge anyone to come up with a better example of socialism than that." |
The "Value" of Public Schooling, by Jacob G. Hornberger, Freedom Daily, Nov 2006
Related Topics: Compulsory Education, Militarism, Socialism
"Under a free-market educational system, however, each family would be free to fashion the education that would fit each child in the family. ... reflect on the fact that many students travel abroad each summer to study nothing but a foreign language and that they study that language for several hours every single day for several weeks at a time. No math or science classes." |
Winning the Battle for Freedom and Prosperity, by John Mackey, Liberty, Jun 2006
Related Topics: Business, Free Markets, Health, Health Care, Life Extension, Personal Responsibility, Socialism
Updated from speech given at FreedomFest 2004
"In the marketplace, a series of successful educational organizations would grow and spread throughout the nation. We would see incredible diversity in types of schools and styles of education meeting the diverse needs and desires of students and parents, instead of the dictates of the educational bureaucracy and teachers' unions." |
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Education: Free & Compulsory
by Murray N. Rothbard, 1972 |
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Separating School & State: How to Liberate America's Families
by Sheldon Richman, The Future of Freedom Foundation, 1994 |
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Voucher Wars: Waging the Legal Battle over School Choice
by Clint Bolick, Cato Institute, 2003 |
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