Education

• Imprisoning Musical Creativity (August 2009)
  by Jennifer Warren-Baker
  
  
• Milton Friedman Was Wrong on Vouchers (April 2009)
  by Jacob G. Hornberger
  
  
• The Socialism of Public Schooling (November 2008)
  by Jacob G. Hornberger
  
  
• Education: Free and Noncompulsory (February 2008)
  by Scott McPherson
  
  
• Set the Prisoners Free (December 2007)
  by Scott McPherson
  
  
• Vouchers or School Choice? (November 2007)
  by Sheldon Richman
  
  
• Why Markets Are Dreaded (April 2007)
  by Tibor R. Machan
  
  
• Freedom and Government Schools (January 2007)
  by Sheldon Richman
  
  
• The Value of “Public” Schooling (November 2006)
  by Jacob G. Hornberger
  
  
• The Education Debate We’re Not Having (November 2006)
  by Scott McPherson
  
  
• Public Schools Have Flunked Out (June 2006)
  by James Ervin Norwood
  
  
• The Separation of Education and State (January 2006)
  by Jacob G. Hornberger
  
  
• Who Made the State the Ultimate Parent? (January 2006)
  by Sheldon Richman
  
  
• It Takes Government to Create a Reading Crisis (January 2006)
  by Sheldon Richman
  
  
• School-Choice Flaws (January 2006)
  by Sheldon Richman
  
  
• Crippling Competition, Part 2 (January 2006)
  by Scott McPherson
  
  
• Crippling Competition, Part 1 (December 2005)
  by Scott McPherson
  
  
• The Ultimate Parent? (November 2005)
  by Sheldon Richman
  
  
• Changing the Education Paradigm (September 2005)
  by Scott McPherson
  
  
• Public-School Outrages (August 2005)
  by Anthony Gregory
  
  
• Evolution or Intelligent Design? None of the Government's Business
  (August 2005)
  by Sheldon Richman
  
  
• Why Not a Free Market in Education? (March 2005)
  by Jacob G. Hornberger
  
  
• A National Wealth Tax to Fund Education? (March 2005)
  by George C. Leef
  
  
• Government Can’t Run Schools Like Businesses (January 2005)
  by Thomas L. Johnson
  
  
• Liberate Us from the Educators (January 2005)
  by Scott McPherson
  
  
• The Great Voucher Fraud (December 2004)
  by Laurence M. Vance
  
  
• State-Run Schools: The New Caesaropapism (September 2004)
  by Lawrence M. Ludlow
  
  
• Spotsy High a Prison> (September 2004)
  by Thomas L. Johnson
  
  
• How Brown v. Board of Education Throttled Black Schooling
  (August 2004)
  by Sheldon Richman
  
  
• W(h)ither Public Schools? (May 2004)
  by Sheldon Richman
  
  
• Drugs and Schooling: the Meaning of State Education (February 2004)
  by Sheldon Richman
  
  
• Socialism Lives in Public Schools (January 2003)
  by Thomas L. Johnson
  
  
• To Homeschool or Not to Homeschool, Part 2 (December 2002)
  by Scott McPherson
  
  
• To Homeschool or Not to Homeschool, Part 1 (December 2002)
  by Scott McPherson
  
  
• Should Government Run Churches . . . or Shools? (December 2002)
  by Scott McPherson
  
  
• The Problem Is the Schools (August 2002)
  by Sheldon Richman
  
  
• Teaching Obedience, Not Algebra (August 2002)
  by Crispin Sartwell
  
  
• Ending Public School Violence (February 2002)
  by Jacob G. Hornberger
  
  
• Becker, Competition, and Education (September 2001)
  by Sheldon Richman
  
  
• Monopoly, Competition, and Educational Freedom [short]
  (September 2001)
  by Jacob G. Hornberger
  
  
• State Department Confusion over Liberty (September 2001)
  by Jacob G. Hornberger
  
  
• Vouchers and Visions of Freedom: A Fictional History (September 2001)
  by Richard M. Ebeling
  
  
• Parent Power: Why National Standards Won’t Improve Education
  (April 2001)
  by Sheldon Richman
  
  
• Sell the Schools (April 2001)
  by Sheldon Richman
  
  
• Free-Market Education Stops School Violence (March 2001)
  by Jacob G. Hornberger
  
  
• What Happened to the Conservatives? (March 2001)
  by Sheldon Richman
  
  
• Food, Education, and Health Care [long] (January 2001)
  by Jacob G. Hornberger
  
  
• Food, Education, and Health Care [short] (December 2000)
  by Jacob G. Hornberger
  
  
• Vouchers Are Just Another Welfare Scheme (October 2000)
  by Jacob G. Hornberger
  
  
• The Black Hole of Higher Education (August 2000)
  by George C. Leef
  
  
• Education and the Presidential Race (June 2000)
  by Sheldon Richman
  
  
• Public Schooling: Education or Indoctrination? (June 2000)
  by Jacob G. Hornberger
  
  
• Children Are Property of the State (April 2000)
  by Jacob G. Hornberger
  
  
• Monopoly, Competition, and Educational Freedom [long] (March 2000)
  by Jacob G. Hornberger
  
  
• It’s Time to Put Public Education behind Us (February 2000)
  by Richard M. Ebeling
  
  
• What Is a Conservative? (February 2000)
  by Jacob G. Hornberger
  
  
• Freedom in the 21st Century (January 2000)
  by Sheldon Richman
  
  
• Time to Separate School and State (December 1999)
  by Michael Prowse
  
  
• Educational Coercion and Aberrant Behavior [long] (October 1999)
  by Jacob G. Hornberger
  
  
• The GOP and Education (September 1999)
  by Sheldon Richman
  
  
• The Surrender of Choice (September 1999)
  by Jacob G. Hornberger
  
  
• Educational Coercion and Aberrant Behavior [short] (August 1999)
  by Jacob G. Hornberger
  
  
• Seeking Explanations, Not Causes (August 1999)
  by Sheldon Richman
  
  
• The Surrender of Choice (July 1999)
  by Jacob G. Hornberger
  
  
• More Power for Washington (May 1999)
  by Sheldon Richman
  
  
• Educational Gimmickry [long] (October 1998)
  by Sheldon Richman
  
  
• The Conservative Commitment to Educational Socialism (September 1998)
  by Jacob G. Hornberger
  
  
• Throw D.C.’s Government out of School (September 1998)
  by Jacob G. Hornberger
  
  
• Educational Gimmickry [short] (June 1998)
  by Sheldon Richman
  
  
• Save the Children ... from Government (May 1998)
  by Sheldon Richman
  
  
• No Federal Role in Daycare (January 1998)
  by Sheldon Richman
  
  
• Back to the Government’s Clutches (August 1997)
  by Sheldon Richman
  
  
• Throw the State out of School (August 1997)
  by Jacob G. Hornberger
  
  
• Public Schools: Turning Children and Parents into Peons (July 1997)
  by James Bovard
  
  
• School Candy in Virginia (July 1997)
  by Jacob G. Hornberger
  
  
• Mandatory Volunteerism: If Orwell Were Alive, He’d Die of Laughter
  (April 1997)
  by Sheldon Richman
  
  
• The President Goes Wrong on Education (February 1997)
  by Sheldon Richman
  
  
• The Tragedy of the Public Schools Continues (February 1997)
  by Sheldon Richman
  
  
• We Need Freedom, Not School Standards (June 1996)
  by Sheldon Richman
  
  
• The Education Crisis Is Real (May 1996)
  by Sheldon Richman
  
  
• Public Schools and the Assault on the Family (February 1996)
  by Sheldon Richman
  
  
• Cancel Christmas, the Government Owns Your School (January 1996)
  by Rodney Lewis
  
  
• A Different Vision for Schools (January 1996)
  by Rodney Lewis
  
  
• Horrors! Maybe the Public Schools Are Working Just Fine (July 1995)
  by Sheldon Richman
  
  
• Resolving the School Prayer Conflict (July 1995)
  by Sheldon Richman
  
  
• What’s Wrong with History Standards? (July 1995)
  by Sheldon Richman
  
  
• Freedom of Education (March 1993)
  by Jacob G. Hornberger
  
  
• Freeing the Education Market (March 1993)
  by Sheldon Richman
  
  
• Political Correctness and the Closed Society (June 1992)
  by Richard M. Ebeling
  
  
• Playing Monopoly in the Real World (May 1992)
  by Jacob G. Hornberger
  
  
• Are Compulsory School Attendance Laws Necessary? (Part 3) (May 1991)
  by Samuel L. Blumenfeld
  
  
• Are Compulsory School Attendance Laws Necessary? (Part 2) (April 1991)
  by Samuel L. Blumenfeld
  
  
• Politically Correct Thinking and State Education (April 1991)
  by Richard M. Ebleing
  
  
• Are Compulsory School Attendance Laws Necessary? (Part 1)
  (March 1991)
  by Samuel L. Blumenfeld
  
  
• Why Americans Won’t Choose Freedom (March 1991)
  by Jacob G. Hornberger
  
  
• Letting Go of Socialism (September 1990)
  by Jacob G. Hornberger

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