Education

Focus on Freedom: Education

by Catherine Bleish August 20, 2018

Catherine Bleish gives her personal and unique view of the principles of the free society.

Families First, Taxpayers Last

by Laurence M. Vance August 17, 2018

Milton Friedman may have put families first, but he put taxpayers last. Friedman (1912–2006) was one of the most influential free-market economists of the twentieth century. After receiving his Ph.D. in economics from Columbia University, he worked for the federal government and then taught economics at the University of Chicago for thirty years. In 1976, he received the Nobel Prize ...

The Libertarian Angle: School Vouchers Versus Educational Liberty (video)

by Future of Freedom Foundation May 16, 2018

Are vouchers the answer for introducing market forces into public education, or is a free market in education the libertarian answer? FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling discuss. Go to the podcast.

The Case against Schooling

by George Leef May 1, 2018

The Case against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money by Bryan Caplan (Princeton University Press, 2018, 395 pages). Almost every book on education policy (and I have read a great many of them) springs from the set of assumptions that education “experts” embrace: that schooling builds our stock of knowledge and ...

The Libertarian Angle: Separate School & State

by Future of Freedom Foundation April 3, 2018

What is the best way to educate children? Who decides? Join Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling as they explore. Go to the podcast.

Real Educational Freedom

by Laurence M. Vance March 14, 2018

The federal secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos, is calling on Americans to embrace a vision of “education freedom” that empowers students and parents with a “multitude of pathways” toward new opportunities. DeVos made her remarks at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) — held February 27–March 2 outside Washington, D.C. — during a ...

The Libertarian Angle: The Case against Education (video)

by Future of Freedom Foundation February 22, 2018

How much value should be placed on a bachelor's degree? Special guest Bryan Caplan, Professor of Economics at George Mason University, joins Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling to discuss his new book The Case against Education. Due to a technical glitch, the video quality of this episode is poor, but we ...

Asking the Wrong Questions about Vouchers

by Laurence M. Vance February 15, 2018

It has been almost thirty years since Milwaukee began offering the nation’s first school vouchers. Beginning with 341 students and a half-dozen or so private schools, the voucher program — which allows low-income children to use taxpayer money to attend private schools — is today used by about 29,000 Milwaukee children at more than 100 private schools at an ...

Republicans for All

by Laurence M. Vance October 20, 2017

Last month, self-proclaimed socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) released his Medicare for All plan. Said Sanders, Health care must be recognized as a right, not a privilege. Every man, woman and child in our country should be able to access the health care they need regardless of their income. The only long-term solution to America’s health care crisis ...

Children of the American Police State

by John W. Whitehead August 25, 2016

We don’t need no education We don’t need no thought control No dark sarcasm in the classroom Teachers leave them kids alone… All in all it’s just another brick in the wall All in all you’re just another brick in the wall. —Pink Floyd, “Another Brick in the Wall” The nation’s young people have been given front-row seats for an unfolding police drama that is rated ...

Educational Socialism versus the Free Market

by Richard M. Ebeling April 19, 2016

Academia has long been thought of as the “marketplace of ideas,” the arena where truth may be pursued through dispassionate discourse and openness to competing views. Yet higher education in America has moved a great distance from this ideal and its practice and into arenas of collectivist indoctrination. Too many of our colleges and universities have become cloistered “hothouses” of ...

Abolish the Department of Education

by Wendy McElroy March 1, 2016

The Department of Education (DOE) is one of the most destructive federal agencies because it attempts to control the flow of ideas and information by controlling public schools, including higher education. If a school does not comply, then it gets no federal money. Educators who rebel outright, such as home-schooling parents, are reined in by an ever-tightening net of ...