public school
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The abusive education monopoly must go.
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Education is such a fundamental element of American life, we often take it for granted. Yet the fundamental nature of education is precisely what makes it the political policy every citizen should care about.
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Education
How to Prevent High School Dropouts? Give Families the Schools They Want
by Teresa Mull November 28, 2017Last month was National Dropout Prevention Month. The media has been eagerly reporting that high school graduation rates have reached a record high, though “incomplete or fuzzy” district data makes such claims questionable.
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Washington should spare school choice its suffocating embrace.
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Last month, more than six million people across the nation rallied, danced, and wore colorful scarves at 21,000 events celebrating National School Choice Week.
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Betsy DeVos survived a Senate confirmation process made bitter because of the opposition of the teachers unions, which fear that she can parlay her advocacy of school choice into much bigger gains for choice in her powerful new position.
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Education
The Left Didn’t Groove to the Beat of School Choice Week
by Robert Holland February 10, 2017The record-breaking numbers for the seventh annual National School Choice Week (NSCW), which wrapped up January 28, were stunning.
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Education
Education Policymakers Should Consider Kids’ Happiness by Giving Parents More Power
by Teresa Mull January 9, 2017Winter has officially come, and children across the country will spend the next few months stuck in classrooms, gazing longingly out the window while they eagerly wait for spring break.
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The teachers unions’ cruel streak is helping no one.
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There is a growing divide within the education reform movement between the so-called technocrats and free-marketeers, causing confusion with parents and grassroots activists and making reform much more difficult to achieve.
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Education
Research Shows School Choice Benefits More Than Just Conservatives
by Teresa Mull June 16, 2016Two 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.
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EducationFeatured
Thorner: Stossel Tells Students to “Leave People Alone” for American Prosperity
by Nancy Thorner June 9, 2016The Northwestern University College Republicans and the Young America’s Foundation co-sponsored an event featuring author John Stossel on Tuesday, May 24, at 8:00 p.m. at the Leverone Auditorium in Evanston, IL. The topic of Stossel’s speech, “Freedom and Its Enemies.” In keeping with Stossel’s professed political affiliation, a sizable number of Libertarian college students were in attendance at the free event.