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Welcome to the archives of FFF Email Update. Six days a week, FFF sends out a free email newsletter containing original commentary and news articles on current events. Below you will find an indexed archive of all of the non-FFF articles that we linked to in every issue of Email Update. If you wish to find FFF original articles that might have appeared in Email Update, please visit our Search by Issues page.

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  • Honey, When Did the Feds Take Over the Kids' School?
    by Neal McCluskey
    Cato Institute

  • The Best Way to Finance Universities Is to Make the Participants Pay
    by Simon Jenkins
    The Guardian

  • R.C. Hoiles and Public Schooling
    by Wendy McElroy
    Independent Institute

  • Keep Government Out of the Schools
    by Jeff Jacoby
    Boston Globe

  • They Spend WHAT? The Real Cost of Public Schools
    by Adam B. Schaeffer
    Cato Institute

  • Cut State Funding to Universities. Let Them Stand Alone
    by Terence Kealey
    London Times

  • Variety Ensures Impartiality
    by Tibor R. Machan
    Yuma Sun

  • Web Cams Spying on Your Kids
    Editorial
    Washington Times

  • End Fed ED
    by Neal McCluskey
    Washington Times

  • We Don't Need No State Education
    by Sheldon Richman
    Foundation for Economic Education

  • Disestablish Public Education
    by Leonard P. Liggio
    Ludwig von Mises Institute

  • To Save Children, Cut Education
    by Rob Schwarzwalder
    Washington Times

  • "Why Don't Students Like School?" Well, Duhhh…
    by Peter Gray
    Psychology Today

  • Why Pledge Allegiance When Loyalty Should Be Conditional
    by J.D. Tuccille
    The Examiner

  • Confessions of a Home-Schooler
    by Andrew O'Hehir
    Salon.com

  • Obama Would Curtail Summer Vacation
    Editorial
    The Daily Bell

  • Separate School and State (video)
    by Pete Eyre
    Motorhome Diaries

  • Hey, Mr. President, Leave Those Kids Alone
    by Gene Healy
    Cato Institute

  • Women Boost Conn. Gun Sales
    by Jim Moore
    The News-Times

  • Whose Children Are They?
    by Christine Smith
    Christine Smith's Blog

  • Obama Goes to School
    by Mark Steyn
    Washington Times

  • Publik Edumacation Refermation
    by Jerry Salcido
    Campaign for Liberty

  • Private Schooling for the Poor
    by Marcus Winters
    Washington Times

  • Looking for Advil in All the Wrong Places
    by Jacob Sullum
    Reason

  • Mayoral Control Would Do Nothing to Boost Schools
    by Art Carden and
    Mike Hammock
    Independent Institute

  • Mayoral Control Would Do Nothing to Boost School
    by Art Carden and
    Mike Hammock
    Independent Institute

  • Can You Hear Me Now?
    by Jonathan Turley
    Turley Blog

  • Search Me
    by Dahlia Lithwick
    Slate

  • The Ballad of John Singer
    by William Norman Grigg
    LewRockwell.com

  • Do We Really Need More College Grads?
    by George Leef
    Investor's Business Daily

  • More to Learning Than Test Scores
    by Karen Kolp
    Boston Globe

  • Home-Schoolers
    by Gary Jason
    Washington Times

  • Free-Market Education
    by Briggs Armstrong
    Ludwig von Mises Institute

  • School Daze
    by Terry Everton
    Teverton.com

  • The Best and the Brightest Led America Off a Cliff
    by Chris Hedges
    Truthdig.com

  • Are Government "Investments" in Higher Education Worthwhile?
    by George Leef
    Liberty Fund

  • Americans’ Supreme Ignorance
    by Walter E. Williams
    Washington Times

  • Review: Sheldon Richman, Separating School and State
    Malcolm Kirkpatrick
    Harriet Tubman Agenda

  • Bellamy Salute
    Wikipedia.org
  • Dear Loudoun: Leave My Sandwich Alone
    by Clark Kidd
    Washington Post

  • My Home-School Days
    by Stefan Merrill Block
    Los Angeles Times

  • Don't Blame All Borrowers
    by Robert H. Frank
    Washington Post

  • No Right to Educate Your Own Child?
    by John Stossel
    Union Leader

  • The School Crotch Investigation
    by Jacob Sullum
    Washington Times

  • The Prussian Model for State Control
    House of Paine Blog
  • Home Is Where the School Is
    by Gregory J. Millman
    Washington Post

  • A Threat to Home Schooling
    Editorial
    Washington Times

  • Bitter Partisan Politics
    by Walter E. Williams
    George Mason University

  • Adolescence: A Heresy
    by R. Cort Kirkwood
    Taki's Top Drawer

  • With Government Money Comes Strings
    by John Stossel
    Townhall.com

  • Don't Make Public Schools a State Church
    by Thomas C. Hunt and
    James C. Carper
    Christian Science Monitor

  • Big Brother at School
    by Jeff Jacoby
    Boston Globe

  • When School Works
    by Laura Vanderkam
    USA Today

  • Public Schools, Public Menace
    by Joel Turtel
    MyKidsDeserveBetter.com

  • Do Away With Public Schools
    by Jonah Goldberg
    Los Angeles Times

  • Leave Those Kids Alone
    by Michael White
    The Guardian

  • Exploiting Ignorance
    by Walter E. Williams
    George Mason University

  • 'Education Standards' Are Not the Answer
    by Andrew Coulson
    Washington Post

  • A Call for Separation of School and State
    by Jeff Jacoby
    Boston Globe

  • 2007 German Horror Tale
    by Paul Belien
    Washington Times

  • The Trouble with Vouchers
    by Joseph Sobran
    Sobran's

  • Big Brother on Campus
    by Katherine Haley Will
    Washington Post

  • When Parents' Values Conflict with Public Schools
    by Jeff Jacoby
    Boston Globe

  • Learning on Their Own Terms
    by Nick Anderson
    Washington Post

  • "Literacy Rose … to Between 91 and 97 Percent"
    by Vin Suprynowicz
    Las Vegas Review-Journal

  • Block Federal Monitoring
    by Leon Botstein
    USA Today

  • No to More Education Control
    by Michael Ostrolenk
    USA Today

  • The Camel's Head in the Tent
    by Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.
    LewRockwell.com

  • Free Market Also Works for Schools
    by Howard J. Blitz
    Yuma Sun

  • Let a Thousand Choices Bloom: Debating the Future of Education Reform
    by Jacob G. Hornberger, Marshall Fritz, John Taylor Gatto, et al
    Reason Online

  • Free Markets Schools Offer Benefits to Parents, Kids
    by Howard J. Blitz
    Yuma Sun

  • An Intelligent Design for Education
    by Jacob Sullum
    Reason

  • Public School Daze
    by David Salisbury
    Washington Times

  • Separating School and State
    by Jeff Jacoby
    Boston Globe

  • Let's Get Rid of Public Schools
    by David Gelernter
    Los Angeles Times

  • Making College Affordable
    by Jeff Jacoby
    Boston Globe

  • Communism for Kids
    by Trevor Bothwell
    Washington Times

  • Learning Democracy's Bedrock
    Editorial
    Christian Science Monitor

  • First Amendment No Big Deal, Students Say
    MSNBC
  • Our Battered Constitution
    by Bob Herbert
    New York Times

  • Teen Sex Increased after Abstinence Program
    MSNBC
  • Government Failure: E.G. West on Education
    by John B. Egger
    Independent Institute

  • Singapore Takes Strict Steps Against Obesity
    by Associated Press
    MSNBC

  • Homeschooling on the Rise
    by Tom Costello
    MSNBC

  • Homeschooling Ambush
    by Michelle Malkin
    Washington Times

  • All Together Now
    by Barbara Ehrenreich
    New York Times

  • To Many Japanese, Tokyo School Directive Is Coerced Patriotism
    by Bruce Wallace
    Los Angeles Times

  • Area Man Backs Call to Pull Children from Public Schools
    by Christina Lee Knauss
    South Carolina State

  • Vote Sought on Public School "Exodus"
    by Mary Ann Zehr
    Education Week

  • Black Flight to Private Schools Is Growing
    by Samuel G. Freedman
    New York Times

  • Inequality in Education
    by William H. Peterson
    Washington Times

  • Brown Decision a Dirge for Black Schools
    by Jonathan Tilove
    Times-Picayune

  • "Free" Education and Literacy
    by Barry Dean Simpson
    Ludwig von Mises Institute

  • Home Schools vs. Big Brother
    by Michelle Malkin
    Washington Times

  • Unruly Students Facing Arrest, Not Detention
    by Sara Rimer
    New York Times

  • A Web of Indoctrination Catches Cuba's Students
    by Claudia Marquez Linares
    Los Angeles Times

  • Strange Bedfellows
    by William H. Peterson
    Washington Times

  • Turning to Tutors, Instead of Schools
    by Brigid McMenamin
    New York Times

  • Turning to Tutors, Instead of Schools
    by Brigid McMenamin
    New York Times

  • Public Schoolteachers Face Federal Test
    by Ben Feller (A.P.)
    Yahoo.com

  • Rising Demands for Testing Pushes Limits of Its Accuracy
    by Diana B. Henriques
    New York Times

  • Frustrated Principal Smashes Windows
    by Associated Press
    Washington Post

  • Schools Find No Help in Carrots and Sticks
    by Jeannie Oakes
    Los Angeles Times

  • Study Finds No Sign that Testing Deters Students' Drug Use
    by Greg Winter (New York Times)
    Grand Forks Herald

  • Fairfax Cancels Student Survey on Sex, Drugs
    by S. Mitra Kalita
    Washington Post

  • Home-schooling Parents Face Questions Over Methods
    Associated Press
    Bayarea.com

  • Black Families Explore Home Schooling
    by S.A. Reid
    Atlanta Journal-Constitution


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