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Friday Freakout: What to Do with Struggling Schools
This week’s Vice.com article, “The Paradox of School Choice,” tells the story of a young couple who, despite the premium they pay in home costs, still found it difficult to enroll their younger...
View ArticleWhat’s in “The School Starter Checklist”?
“The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It’s as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow....
View ArticleTop-Down Reform vs. Market Reform of K-12 Education
Newly elected officials interested in “improving” K-12 education might sound a lot like Optimus Prime: “Reform and roll out!” But just like the Transformers, although policymakers’ reforms will differ...
View ArticleProgressive to Progressive: Scare Tactics Won’t Work
Anyone who’s ever worked in politics can tell you it’s far easier to be against something than to be for something. When I was a carefree 20-something working as the Communications Director for the...
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Is 2015 the Year for Universal School Choice?
Everyone likes affirmation. People enjoy being told the project they led was impressive or that their new haircut looks nice or that they made a good choice. We at the Friedman Foundation are no...
View ArticleESAs are Key to Improving Ed, Attracting Talent in Detroit
It has been sad to watch the spectacular fall of the once great American city of Detroit. From 1950 to the present, the population of Detroit has dropped from 1.85 million to fewer than 700,000...
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How School Choice Can Help Public Schools in Tennessee
Faulty faucets that constantly drip can prove costly over time. In Tennessee, the legislative efforts to fix our education system via school choice have been dripping for the past five years. And...
View ArticleImproving America’s Classrooms Through School Choice
Problematic public school classroom conditions have survived decades of education reform efforts. With federal lawmakers considering reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind Act—and new state...
View ArticleFriedman Foundation Celebrates Founder with New, Innovative Website
Gen Con is in full swing in Indianapolis, where the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice is headquartered. It’s a time when thousands of gamers come to town to witness all the new innovations in...
View Article“The Integration Anomaly” Author Responds to Critics
My report, The Integration Anomaly, relies on dozens of empirical studies and logic from simulation models calibrated to real-world data to make a claim that universal school choice programs can be...
View ArticleESSA and What it Means for School Choice
“With this bill, we reaffirm that fundamentally American ideal—that every child, regardless of race, income, background, the ZIP Code where they live, deserves the chance to make of their lives what...
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New Name, Same Mission: Foundation to Announce New Name on Friedman Legacy...
I have some really exciting news to share with you: The Friedman Foundation is changing its name. Why is that “exciting news?” Why wouldn’t we want to keep using the Friedman name? Isn’t it their...
View ArticleFriday Freakout: The Label You Give School Choice Programs Doesn’t Change the...
Are school vouchers really a form of “welfare?” Recently, Mike McCabe of the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign argued in the Beloit Daily News that “truth in labeling” requires labeling the Wisconsin...
View ArticleEducation Market Failure? The Cost of Regulations on Private School Choice...
An Analysis of the Louisiana Scholarship Program Achievement Findings “The approach has been to regard any market failure, however minor, as a sufficient excuse for government intervention. The market...
View ArticleThe Next Accountability: Getting What We Want from Schools – Without Technocracy
For decades, the word “accountability” brought education reformers together. Today, it’s driving us apart. Our forefathers built the education reform movement on a foundation that all reformers shared:...
View ArticleESAs in Missouri: A “Barren” School Choice Landscape
This is the first in a three-part series that looks at education savings accounts in Missouri and how they could empower every family and improve student outcomes. Where Things Stand in the Show-Me...
View ArticleEducational Choice and Bridging the Political Divide
At the annual conservative American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) meeting this year, Dr. Steve Perry—a liberal charter school leader and passionate educational choice advocate—spoke about the...
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ESAs in Missouri: Why Things Need To Change
This is the second in a three-part series that looks at education savings accounts in Missouri and how they could empower every family and improve student outcomes. There are roughly 916,000 students...
View ArticleESAs in Missouri: Designing What Works For Parents and the State Budget
This is the third in a three-part series that looks at education savings accounts in Missouri and how they could empower every family and improve student outcomes. As previously written, Missouri would...
View ArticleThe Next Accountability Part 2: Where We Get What We Want
In our society we are free to disagree about what is good, true and beautiful, and as a result we lack consensus about what is a good education. Since education policy cannot avoid saying something...
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