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Two recently released studies, both analyzing research from impartial sources, have come to the same conclusion education reformers have been pronouncing for years: School choice benefits not only children but society as a whole. It’s not surprising the Friedman Foundation for Education Choice (FFEC)—an organization whose mission it is to promote “school choice as the most effective and equitable way to improve the quality of K–12 education in America”—would release a study showing school choice is beneficial, but the data used by FFEC in its fourth edition of A Win-Win Solution: The Empirical Evidence on School Choice come from a variety sources, including many that are not tied to or in favor of the school choice movement.

School choice has been trending for a good many Januarys now, and that’s not just because of the successful promotion efforts of National School Choice Week (NSCW), held annually during the final week of January. After launching five years ago with just a few hundred public events, NSCW will sponsor 16,140 rallies, forums and the like in all 50 states this Jan. 24-30.

Watch Bruno Behrend debate Chicago Public School Principal Troy LaRaviere on the topic, “Public or private? What should be the future of public education in Chicago?” The debate was held…

On July 25, Heartland Institute Senior Fellow Bruno Behrend took part in the famous “Bughouse Square Debate”  before an audience of 500 people in Washington Square Park in the North…

As President Obama runs about trying to engage states in his Medicare-like preschool proposal, it’s time for Republicans to start thinking as much about small children as they are about illegal immigrants.

Heartland was honored to host Ember Reichgott Junge — a former Minnesota state senator and member of the state’s Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party and a 2008 inductee to the National Charter School Hall of Fame…