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Books

• Choice in Schooling: A Case for Tuition Vouchers.  9-90
• School Choice: The Idea That Will Not Die. 10-97
Articles
 
• Criticizing Public Schools: An Exercise in Futility? (06/08)
• The Cristo Rey Network (06/08)
• Socializing Homeschooled Students (05/08)
• Public School Questions (05/08)
• What Are "Public" Schools? (05/08)
• Still A Nation at Risk? (05/08)
• Education Freedom Day - June 1st (04/08)
• No Golden Age for Schooling (04/08)
• School Choice: The Bad Good News (04/08)
• School Reform Predictions: Easier Said Then Done (04/08)
• Teaching's "Good Old Days" (03/08)
• Paying Teachers $125,000. (03/08)
• School Choice and "Creative Destruction" (3/08)
• Charter Schools: Here to Stay (03/08)
• Cities, Schools, and Choice (02/08)
• Paying Students (02/08)
• School Critics:  From the Beginning (02/08)
• School Ideas: In Practice, Not Just Theoretical (02/08)
• Schooling's Status Quo: Could Individual Choice Possibly Be Worse?  (01/08)
• School Reform Advances: Here and There, But Not Everywhere (01/08)
• The School Choice Glacier: Slow Moving But Unstoppable (01/08)
• "Bridge to Literacy," No Child, or Adult, Left Behind, by John Corcoran (01/08)
• School Reform: Easier Said Than Done (12/07)
• School Funding: Sing a Song of Sixpence, or $4.61 Billion, or Whatever (12/07)
• Charter Schools: A School Reform That Works  (12/07)
• Milwaukee Schools: Proving that Vouchers, Charters and Choice Work  (12/07)
• School Reform: Lessons from Utah (11/07)
• School Choice Initiatives - An Impossible Dream? (11/07)
• Accreditation: More Shadow Than Substance (11/07)
• Student Aid and College Tuition: The Upward Spiral (11/07)
• College/University Endowments: How High Is Up? (10/07)
• Supreme Court Errors: Dred Scott, Plessy, & Everson (10/07)
• Government Funding = Government Strings? (10/07)
• Blaine Amendments: Time To End the Bigotry (10/07)
• The Living Past: "Blaine Amendments" (9/07)
• Violence in the Schools (9/07)
• The Incredible Edible Schoolyard (9/07)
• New Orleans: Charter Schools' Ground Zero (9/07)
• Teacher Competency: Quotes With a Comment (8/07)
• Public School Criticism  (8/07)
• The Educational Morass  (8/07)
• Early Education: If It Ain't Broke...  (8/07)
• Teacher Competency and The Eye of the Beholder (8/07)
• Pre-K Schooling: An Irresistible Force? (7/07)
• School Legal Issues: Footnotes and Sidelights  (7/07)
• High School/College  (7/07)
• U.S. Supreme Court Bans Race-Based School Attendance Plans  (7/07)
• Smaller Classes=Lower Achievement; Counter-Intuitive?  (6/07)
• Class Size: Where Belief Trumps Reality  (6/07)
• School Funding Requests: Ah, the Monotony of It  (6/07)
• Blaming the Student (6/07)
• New Orleans Schools - Chaos Creates Opportunities (6/07)
• Teacher Salaries: More Attention Needed to Specifics (6/07)
• Public Schools Repeat Proven Failure (6/07)
• Preschool School: Proceed With Caution (6/07)
• Ohio's Public Schools and Public Opinion (5/07)
• School Funding as a Distraction (5/07)
• Big Schools, An Ongoing Problem  (5/07)
• Rubber Rooms  (5/07)
• New Orleans Schools: An Unprecedented Challenge  (5/07)
• Teacher Freedom: A Result of School Choice?  (4/07)
• Teacher Union Inconsistency  (4/07)
• Teacher Union Consistency  (4/07)
• Value-based Programs  (4/07)
• Catholic Schools Educate Rather Than Indoctrinate  (4/07)
• Schools Beware! Here Come the Feds Again  (3/07)
• Public Schools: A Common Good or a Source of Social Conflict?  (3/07)
• What Are Education Markets, & Why Do They Matter?  (2/07)
• Utah Adopts Universal Vouchers
• Higher Education Tuition, With the Emphasis on Higher  (2/07)
• The WWII GI Bill: Exhibit A for School Choice  (2/07)
• "...education is being strangled–by degrees." (2/07)
• Schooling: Quotes Without Comment (1/07)
• Schooling: Views From Former Students (1/07)
• School Choice Trends (12/06)
• Commission proposes school reforms; educators disagree (12/06)
• Educational Accountability: Losing Ground (12/06)
• North Star Academy Charter School of Newark, New Jersey (12/06)
• Milton Friedman on School Choice: The Role of Government in Education (11/06)
• Charter Schools: An Irresistible Force (11/06)
• St. Johnsbury Academy: Proof That Choice Works and Schools Can Be Better (11/06)
• Single Sex Schools: Will Reality be Trumped by Ideology? (11/06)
• Highly Qualified Teachers? Behind The Rhetoric (10/06)
• Children Left Behind (10/06)
• Student Achievement: In the Eye of the Beholder   (08/06)
• Educational Hypocrisy and a "Level Playing Field"  (07/06)
• Unfunded Mandates - Expense? Or Excuse? (07/06)
• School Reform: Onward and Upward (07/06)
• Reforming Public Education: Educators vs Theorists (07/06)
• Urban Schools: Problems, Problems Everywhere (06/06)
• Compulsory Schooling?  (5/06)
• Government Schools (05/06)
• Tom Peters Judges Public Schools (05/06)
• A Civics Lesson (05/06)
• Educational Freedom Day (04/06)
• School Funding: Any Argument Will Do (01/06)
• Educational Tax Credits a Success Story (12/05)
• Homeschoolers and School Choice (12/05)
• School Size - Paying the Price for Ignoring the Evidence (11/05)
• Seeing the School Choice Forest (10/05)
• School Choice, Democrats and Teacher Unions (5/05)
• Opposing School Choice (9/05)
• Faith-Based Initiatives (9/05)
• Double Standards in school Practices (9/05)
• School Choice Requires Commitment (9/05)
• Countering School Choice Requires Actions Not Words (07/05)
• Public and Private Schools (4/18/05)
• Teacher Certification: An Irrelivant Process? (01/05)
• School Reform (01/05)
• Homeschooling Results (12/04)
• The Homeschooling Phenomenon (12/04)
• Universal Tuition Tax Credits (12/04)
• A Contrarian View of Horace Mann (11/04)
• School Funding as an Excuse (10/04)
• The Superintendency: Neither Inevitable Nor Necessary (09/04)
• The Superintendency: Representative of a Troubled System (09/04)
• For Schools, Money Isn't the Answer (08/04)
• The Emergence of the Voucher Controversey (07/04)
• The Struggle for School Choice (07/04)
• Why Don't Teachers Get Paid Like Doctors? (06/04)
• Charter Schools - Here to Stay (05/04)
• Tuition Vouchers... An Old Story (04/04)
• The Public Schools: Mirror Mirror On The Wall  (03/04)
• Small Schools Achieve Better Results  (03/04)
• Education Rhetoric: The Intemperate Pot and the Hypocritical Kettle (03/04)
• Literacy Then and Now (02/04)
• Charter Schools - Missed Opportunity for School Boards? (01/04)
• The Little School that Could (11/03)
• The American Way? (09/03)
• The Bigotry of "Blaine Amendments" (Part 2) (08/03)
• The Pain of Blaine (Amendments) Is On the Wane? (Part 3) (08/03)School Funding: Any Argument Will Do (01/06)
• Educational Tax Credits a Success Story (12/05)
• Homeschoolers and School Choice (12/05)
• School Size - Paying the Price for Ignoring the Evidence (11/05)
• Seeing the School Choice Forest (10/05)
• School Choice, Democrats and Teacher Unions (5/05)
• Opposing School Choice (9/05)
• Faith-Based Initiatives (9/05)
• Double Standards in school Practices (9/05)
• School Choice Requires Commitment (9/05)
• Countering School Choice Requires Actions Not Words (07/05)
• Public and Private Schools (4/18/05)
• Teacher Certification: An Irrelivant Process? (01/05)
• School Reform (01/05)
• Homeschooling Results (12/04)
• The Homeschooling Phenomenon (12/04)
• Universal Tuition Tax Credits (12/04)
• A Contrarian View of Horace Mann (11/04)
• School Funding as an Excuse (10/04)
• The Superintendency: Neither Inevitable Nor Necessary (09/04)
• The Superintendency: Representative of a Troubled System (09/04)
• For Schools, Money Isn't the Answer (08/04)
• The Emergence of the Voucher Controversey (07/04)
• The Struggle for School Choice (07/04)
• Why Don't Teachers Get Paid Like Doctors? (06/04)
• Charter Schools - Here to Stay (05/04)
• Tuition Vouchers... An Old Story (04/04)
• The Public Schools: Mirror Mirror On The Wall  (03/04)
• Small Schools Achieve Better Results  (03/04)
• Education Rhetoric: The Intemperate Pot and the Hypocritical Kettle (03/04)
• Literacy Then and Now (02/04)
• Charter Schools - Missed Opportunity for School Boards? (01/04)
• Re-forming the Schools (01/04)
• School Choice is a Right, no bashing necessary (01/04)
• A Foolish Inconsistency (12/03)
• What does Certification Mean? (12/03)
• The Little School that Could (11/03)
• What Will it Take? (11/03)
• Playing Educational Catch-22 (10/03)
• A Choice Dialogue (10/03)
• Choosing to Homeschool (10/03)
• The American Way? (09/03)
• Same Means == Same Ends  (09/03)
• Voucher Wars (Part I) (07/03)
• The Bigotry of "Blaine Amendments" (Part 2) (08/03)
• The Pain of Blaine (Amendments) Is On the Wane? (Part 3) (08/03)
• Book Review: "Kingdom of Children"(06/03)
• More of the Same (05/03)
• Is There Ever Enough Money? (03/03)
• A Class-ic Mistake... (03/03)
• School Choice and Public Opinion (03/03)
• Separation of ----- and State? (03/03)
• The Schools and Red Tape (02/03)
• The Struggle for School Choice (02/03)
• Will More Ever Be Enough? (01/03)
• Can There Be Beneficial School Regulations? (01/03)
• Teacher Dis-Union (01/03)
• Whose Kids Are They? (12/02)
• Why Are Public Schools So Expensive? (12/02)
• Justice Clarence Thomas, the Constitution and School Choice (12/02)
• Thomas Jefferson's Educational Plan (10/02)
• Blaine Amendments Under Attack - At Last! (9/02)
• Perspectives on Teachers' Salaries (07/02)
• What Wall? (07/02)
• FYI: SchoolReformers.com (06/02)
• School Choice and the U.S. Supreme Court (05/02)
• Cleveland's Public Schools: You Wouldn't Want Your Child To Go There (03/02)
• What School Choice Could Mean for Teachers (03/02)
• Reform-Minded Teachers (02/02)
• School Boards and Educational Reform (02/02)
• Tom Peters Judges Public Schools (11/01)
• Home Schoolers and School Choice (10/01)
• The U.S. Supreme Court makes a Choice Decision (10/01)
• Is the Traditional High School Obsolete? (09/01)
• The Home School Juggernaut (09/01)
• Congress Considers Universal Tuition Tax Credits (08/01)
• School Choice: A Right, Not a Privilege (06/01)
• The Low Income School Choice Demonstration Act (05/01)
• Pennsylvania's New Universal Tuition Tax Credit Legislation (05/01)
• Why Don't Teachers Get Paid Like Doctors? (05/01)
• Public School Teachers Who Support School Choice (04/01)
• Teachers Are Where You Find Them (04/01)
• Double Standards in School Practices (04/01)
• Charitable Choice a.k.a. Faith-Based Initiatives (03/01)
• School Bullies & School Violence (03/01)
• School Violence (03/01)
• Choice Teachers (01/01)
• The Ambiguous Embrace (12/00)
• Now You Know (12/00)
• GIVE UP? NEVER!!! (11/00)
• Taking the Initiative (11/00)
• ADD/ADHD (11/00)
• Opposing School Choice (10/00)
• Teacher's Choice (9-00)
• School Choice Q & A (8-00)
• What We Have Here Is a Failure to Communicate (8-00)
• Kids Get Gore-d (8-00)
• A Blaine Amendment Update (7-00)
• A Plus and/or A Minus (7-00)
• Thomas Jefferson - Icon or Iconoclast? (6-00)
• Those Who Don't Know History... (6-00)
• NSBA Annual Meeting: What Wasn't Said (6-00)
• Teacher Certification Procedures are a Joke (6-00)
• Awarding Blue Ribbons 5-00
• Blaine and Bigotry Block School Choice 5-00
• Voices for Choice 5-00 (1st circulated 7-99)
• School Choice Choices 4-00
• Local Independent Education Associations 4-00
• Choosing to Home School ("second printing") 3-00
• Tax Credits for School Choice 3-00
• "School Choice is a Right - No Bashing Necessary" 03-00
• "The 100,000-Teacher Scam" 10-99
• "Never. Never. Never." 6-99
• School Choice Choices 5-99
• A Choice Interview. 11-97
• A Class-ic Mistake. 6-98
• Charter Schools: An Irresistible Force. 12-98
• Choice, Charters and Privatization. 9-96
• Choosing to Home School. 11-96
• Coulson Book Review. 4-99.
• A Letter to Teachers. 9-98
• A Letter To The American People. 9-98
• It Began With Adam - Smith. 5-98
• Ohio Supreme Court Decision. 6-99
• Ohio Testimony. 4-97
• Pennsylvania Testimony. 3-95
• School District Based Vouchers. 11-98
• School Size - Bigger is Not Better. 9-98
• Teacher Choice. 9-98
• Teacher Unions and Collective Bargaining - In Retrospect. 9-93
• Teacher Unions and School Reform in PA. 2-97
School Choice Newsletters
• School Choice: A Moral Imperative 6-18-99
• Blaine and Bigotry Block School Choice 3-27-99
• Shooting the Messenger 2-24-99
• Where School Choice Works-Milwaukee 2-15-99
• Ridge's High Point 2-05-99
• Where School Choice Works-Minnesota 1-15-99
• School Choice-Let School Districts Decide 1-2-99
• The Vermont Story. 7-98
• Violence and Choice. 6-98
• Will We Ever Learn. 5-98
• Another Break in the Levee. 4-98
• Don't Let Them Get Away With It. 3-98
• Democracy Will Prevail. 2-98
• Shooting Yourself in the Foot. 1-98
• Setting the Agenda. 12-97
• A Foolish Consistency... 11-97
• Picking Up Speed. 10-97
• Radicals? Right. 9-97
• How Many Recommendations are Needed? 8-97
• Thomas Jefferson: Icon or Iconoclast? 7-97
• Choice Reports. 6-97
• CHASE-ing FACTS. 5-97
• Have They No Shame. 4-97
• The Legacy of Albert Shanker. 3-97
• Public Opinion and Educational Opportunity Grants. 2-97
• Money as an Excuse, Not an Answer. 1-97
• Voices for Choice. 12-96
• The Eye of the Beholder. 11-96
• School Choice: A Look at History. 9-96
• There Are Costs; and Then There Are Costs. 8-96
• What Good Old Days? 7-96
• Education Reform, The Task - School Choice, The Goal. 6-96
• The Idea That Will Not Die. 5-96
• Teachers' Choice. 4-96
• Sizing Up School Choice. 12-95
• Will More Ever Be Enough?   11-95
• School Choice: The View From Milwaukee.  5-30-95
• How Much Progress Can We Stand? 5-10-95
• Low-Income Students Benefit From Choice. 2-15-95
• Of  the "Expence" of the Institutions for Education. 1-30-95
• Comparing Apples and Oranges: A Real Lemon. 12-30-94
• Questions, Questions, Questions. 11-15-94
• Does Government Funding = Government Control? 10-30-94
• Do You Ever Wonder? 10-10-94
• There Are Fewer Fingers in the Dike. 8-30-94
• School Choice is Supported by 90%. 7-30-94
• School Choice: What Research Reveals.  6-30-94
• School Choice, Public School "Bashing", and the Far Right.  6-20-94
• If Money's The Solution, That's The Problem. 10-30-93

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