Education

School Choice and American Taxpayers

by Laurence M. Vance November 10, 2023

Conservative and libertarian proponents of “school choice,” that is, government-provided educational vouchers that allow low-income parents to send their children to the school of their choice — which usually means private schools that they would otherwise not be able to afford — now generally make only two arguments in defense of government-provided educational vouchers. They used to maintain that a ...

We Don’t Need No Regulation (or Statist Education)

by Robert E. Wright December 1, 2022

Like the long line of school children who mindlessly marched into Pink Floyd’s meat grinder in The Wall, an estimated one million investors recently fell victim to Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto grinder. The fiasco’s silver lining is that it proves that Americans need neither statist schooling nor government regulation, two insidiously intertwined institutions. Soon after cryptocurrency exchange FTX failed about a ...

Vouchers Are Not the Answer

by Laurence M. Vance September 1, 2022

The deadly shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, earlier this year has Americans once again focusing on the dangers of the gun-free zones known as public schools. And if it is not a shooting, then it is acts of violence by students against other students or teachers or bullying and harassment by students that result in other ...

The Three I’s of a Police State Education: Indoctrination, Intimidation & Intolerance

by John W. Whitehead August 4, 2022

“Every day in communities across the United States, children and adolescents spend the majority of their waking hours in schools that have increasingly come to resemble places of detention more than places of learning.”—Investigative journalist Annette Fuentes This is what it means to go back-to-school in America today. Instead of making the schools safer, government officials are making them more ...

Tulsi Gabbard Gets It Half-Right

by Scott McPherson April 7, 2022

An issue that is dominating headlines is the question of parental rights in education. Florida recently passed a law, falsely labeled the “Don't Say Gay” law, prohibiting educators from instructing pupils in kindergarten through third grade about sexual matters. “Progressives,” as a result, are having a hard time justifying their outrage. During a press conference, Fox News reporter ...

Cancel Marxism. Defund the Universities

by Scott McPherson March 28, 2022

No institution in the United States, or the Western world in general, is more enamored with Marxism than so-called “higher education.” Marxism is grounded in class hatred, the notion that we are each born into a particular economic group that is either oppressor (the capitalists) or oppressed (the proletariat), it being the duty of every member ...

Conservatives Are Wrong on Education

by Scott McPherson March 22, 2022

Conservatives are understandably angered about the state of schooling in this country. For decades, the public-school bureaucracy has peddled the line that they care about education. The revealed truth, however, is quite sinister. Public schools have become indoctrination centers – hostile to learning, hostile to freedom, hostile to children, and hostile to families. Many people are waking ...

How Government Meddling Ruined Higher Education, Part 2

by George Leef March 1, 2022

Part 1 | Part 2 With the expansion of federal loans, the cost of attending college began to increase dramatically. College administrators realized that they could charge students more, since most of them were availing themselves of money that the government dangled in front of them. Tuition and fees rose much faster than the rate of inflation. President Reagan’s ...

How Government Meddling Ruined Higher Education, Part 1

by George Leef February 1, 2022

Part 1 | Part 2 There is no need whatsoever for government to provide, subsidize, or control education. As with all other services, people can voluntarily offer to provide teaching or training, and those who are interested in such services can choose among the individuals and institutions offering them in the market. That is true for primary and secondary ...

Dear Conservatives: It’s Time to Separate School and State

by Scott McPherson January 6, 2022

For decades, so-called “progressives” and other leftists have claimed that elected local school boards give parents control over education. Everyone knows it's a lie, but few have had the courage to speak up. Still, the delusion persists. On the day after Christmas, Nikole Hannah-Jones, of the New York Times' fact-deficient 1619 Project, let the mask drop completely. “I don't really ...

Why Educational Freedom Is the Best Choice

by Laurence M. Vance October 13, 2021

Thanks in large part to state and local government responses to the COVID-19 “pandemic,” enrollment in public schools has dropped for the last two school years as more and more parents have turned to homeschooling. This decline in parents’ use of public education coincides with the conservative backlash against public schools for what they see as the promotion of ...

Is School Choice the Answer to Critical Race Theory?

by Laurence M. Vance July 9, 2021

Following the lead of lawmakers in Tennessee and Idaho, my state of Florida has become the latest state to ban the teaching of critical race theory in its public schools. As adopted by the Florida State Board of Education, the amendment banning the teaching of critical race theory states in part: Examples of theories that distort historical events ...