It's been called "one of the most important church-state cases of the decade" by The New York Times. Now the facts, the players, and the politics of school choice are laid bare in The Cleveland Voucher Case, the forthcoming book by David Brennan, widely regarded as the principal catalyst and father of the Cleveland program. Click here to learn more about the book.
Offer school
choice to all city children
John O. Norquist
Milwaukee Journal Sentinal
Oct. 12, 2002
Beware 'Blaine'
amendments
Keith Sheets Letters
The Christian Science Monitor
August 19, 2002
Bush
and Paige: More than "just being there" in Milwaukee
Gregory Fossedal
EducationNews.org
May 15, 2002
The
Bush education reform: learning from experience
Gregory Fossedal
EducationNews.org
May 14, 2002
Timing
Probably Key In Education Reform
Larry Parker
Providence Journal
August 11, 2001
Bush Has a Chance to Lead on Education
Gregory Fossedal
Colorado Springs Gazette
August 1, 2001
Why
Bush’s School Testing Provisions Are Worth A Fight
Larry Parker
EducationNews.org
August 2001
TEACHER CHOICE MEMBERS REACT TO THE BUSH PLAN
Read Dr. Ruth Smith on the difference between "accountability" and micro-management
Read Linda Cross on the political danger that real school reform faces
The Best Gift
for Mothers and Fathers
Marilyn Keller Rittmeyer
EducationNews.org
June 6, 2001
School Plan Fails Accountability Test
Ken Evans
The Columbian
May 27, 2001
Read Dan Konieczko's counterpoint to Ken Evans on the plans for math and reading tests of elementary school students
Read
All About It: There's More Than One Way to Teach
Donna Garner
Amarillo Globe-News
May 26, 2001
Why Don't
Teachers Get Paid Like Doctors?
David Kirkpatrick
Teacher Quality Bulletin
May 3, 2001
President
Stuffs More Into Education's Maw
Gregory Fossedal
Wall Street Journal
April 19, 2001
Standards for DOED
Larry Parker
Yahoo!
April 13, 2001
Education
Standards Win
Larry Parker and Gregory Fossedal
Washington Times
March 20, 2001
Give
to Charity
John Watkins
CKNJ Online
March 7, 2001
Chartering the
right course in D.C. schools
Larry Parker
Washington Times
March 5, 2001
Quoting
Organizations Left and Right on California/Michigan Voucher Defeats
Education Policy Institute
Teacher
Unions and Education Reform
David W. Kirkpatrick
Government Union Review
Vol. 19 Number 2
Florida
Teachers Concede Vouchers Spurred Improvement
Chris Prawdzik
Rush Limbaugh cites Tocqueville study on radio show: "Tocqueville asked some number of teachers [who they backed for the Presidency] I think it was a couple of thousand or more - whatever it was, it was more than the NEA bosses asked - what do you teachers think. Are you ready? Here's what they said."
| Read House Majority Leader Dick Armey's speech in response to the Secretary of Education's Annual Education Address |
Clear Lines of Accountability
Oakland's Jerry Brown is one of a number of mayors fighting the
authority to make changes in his city's school system. This AdTI study
shows what other cities have achieved.
Open
Season on D.C. Schools
Sen. Robert Kasten
Washington Post
January 25, 2000
Educational
ideas seem questionable
Odessa American
February 11, 2001
Choice
Advocates Urged to "Ask the Hard Questions
School Reform News
January 25, 2001
Teachers
beginning to chafe over power wielded by the NEA
Charles J. Shields
Star
November 23, 2000
Dartmouth review is
of the utmost importance
Jeffrey Hart
News
October 13, 2000
Liberals for
school choice Vouchers are older than public schools
Christopher Prawdzik
Washington Times
September 18, 2000
Education
debate in Washington D.C. September 21, 2000
Heavy-hitting advocates on both sides of the school choice fence
will square off in a debate sponsored by the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution
at the Martin Luther King Memorial Library in Washington, D.C., Sept.
21 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
September 08, 2000
Charter
Schools: Past, Present, & Future
David W. Kirkpatrick
September 2000
A reform idea for Detroit schools: Charter them
Matthew J. Broulliette
Michigan Chronicle
August 9, 2000
Mission Creep: How Large School Districts Lose Sight of the Objective -- Student Learning
Mike Antonucci
November 17, 1999
Dover School Leads Way in
Education That Works
Merton Hanks (of the San Francisco 49ers) and Danielle Bujnak
Contra Costa Times
February 28, 1999
| Much has been made of the idea that school vouchers are a relatively recent innovation. In fact, they are not new and the idea stretches back hundreds of years. France has had... The Alexis de Tocqueville Institution Would like to thank the F.M. Kirby Foundation for the support and vision that made this paper possible |
| Teacher unions and
school choice in countries that have both (How educators in Sweden, Germany, Australia, Denmark, the Netherlands, Russia, New Zealand, Belgium, France, and elsewhere learned to stop worrying and like the voucher.) Robert W. Kasten & Gregory Fossedal Teacher
union "concentration" in 21 countries |
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