The final version of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009—a.k.a. “the stimulus bill”—called for allocating about $115 billion for K–12 education. This will come on top of the approximately $60 billion a year that the federal government ...
If the government is going to give the money away anyway, it might as well empower parents and teachers rather than the status quo, which is failing miserably. Lisa Snell is director of education at Reason Foundation. An archive of her work is here. ...
Marshall Fritz, the longtime libertarian leader who founded the Advocates for Self-Government and created the world-famous World's Smallest Political Quiz, died November 4th of pancreatic cancer at the age of 65. I must admit that I parted ways with ...
Proponents of universal preschool claim that when kids attend quality preschools, they grow up to be smarter, richer and more law-abiding. But this is a fairy tale not based on research. More kids who attend preschool enter kindergarten knowing their ...
In a Winter 2008 City Journal essay, "School Choice Isn't Enough," the Manhattan Institute's Sol Stern, a well-known critic of progressive education, former editor of the radical left magazine Ramparts, and previously a strong supporter of school ...
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