Education

No School Should Receive Federal Funds

by Laurence M. Vance March 5, 2025

President Donald Trump, who once called himself the “father of the vaccine” for COVID-19, is on the warpath against any organization mandating that anyone receive it. Executive Order 14184 (Jan. 27), “Reinstating Service Members Discharged Under the Military’s COVID–19 Vaccination Mandate,” makes reinstatement with rank and back pay available for those who “the military unjustly discharged” for refusing the vaccine. The ...

The Real Education Litmus Test

by Laurence M. Vance August 16, 2024

The new Republican Party platform adopted last month at the Republican national convention in Milwaukee contains a section on education with nine paragraphs. The second paragraph endorses universal school choice: 2. Universal School Choice Republicans believe families should be empowered to choose the best Education for their children. We support Universal School Choice in every State in America. ...

Republicans Can’t Make Up Their Mind on Education

by Laurence M. Vance August 9, 2024

The new Republican Party platform was adopted at the Republican National Convention last month in Milwaukee, their first platform in eight years. Every four years at their convention, Republicans adopt a new party platform, but at the 2020 convention in Charlotte, the Republican National Committee (RNC) “unanimously voted to forego the Convention Committee on Platform, in appreciation ...

School Choice and American Taxpayers

by Laurence M. Vance November 10, 2023

Conservative and libertarian proponents of “school choice,” that is, government-provided educational vouchers that allow low-income parents to send their children to the school of their choice — which usually means private schools that they would otherwise not be able to afford — now generally make only two arguments in defense of government-provided educational vouchers. They used to maintain that a ...

We Don’t Need No Regulation (or Statist Education)

by Robert E. Wright December 1, 2022

Like the long line of school children who mindlessly marched into Pink Floyd’s meat grinder in The Wall, an estimated one million investors recently fell victim to Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto grinder. The fiasco’s silver lining is that it proves that Americans need neither statist schooling nor government regulation, two insidiously intertwined institutions. Soon after cryptocurrency exchange FTX failed about a ...

Vouchers Are Not the Answer

by Laurence M. Vance September 1, 2022

The deadly shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, earlier this year has Americans once again focusing on the dangers of the gun-free zones known as public schools. And if it is not a shooting, then it is acts of violence by students against other students or teachers or bullying and harassment by students that result in other ...

The Three I’s of a Police State Education: Indoctrination, Intimidation & Intolerance

by John W. Whitehead August 4, 2022

“Every day in communities across the United States, children and adolescents spend the majority of their waking hours in schools that have increasingly come to resemble places of detention more than places of learning.”—Investigative journalist Annette Fuentes This is what it means to go back-to-school in America today. Instead of making the schools safer, government officials are making them more ...

Tulsi Gabbard Gets It Half-Right

by Scott McPherson April 7, 2022

An issue that is dominating headlines is the question of parental rights in education. Florida recently passed a law, falsely labeled the “Don't Say Gay” law, prohibiting educators from instructing pupils in kindergarten through third grade about sexual matters. “Progressives,” as a result, are having a hard time justifying their outrage. During a press conference, Fox News reporter ...

Cancel Marxism. Defund the Universities

by Scott McPherson March 28, 2022

No institution in the United States, or the Western world in general, is more enamored with Marxism than so-called “higher education.” Marxism is grounded in class hatred, the notion that we are each born into a particular economic group that is either oppressor (the capitalists) or oppressed (the proletariat), it being the duty of every member ...

Conservatives Are Wrong on Education

by Scott McPherson March 22, 2022

Conservatives are understandably angered about the state of schooling in this country. For decades, the public-school bureaucracy has peddled the line that they care about education. The revealed truth, however, is quite sinister. Public schools have become indoctrination centers – hostile to learning, hostile to freedom, hostile to children, and hostile to families. Many people are waking ...

How Government Meddling Ruined Higher Education, Part 2

by George Leef March 1, 2022

Part 1 | Part 2 With the expansion of federal loans, the cost of attending college began to increase dramatically. College administrators realized that they could charge students more, since most of them were availing themselves of money that the government dangled in front of them. Tuition and fees rose much faster than the rate of inflation. President Reagan’s ...

How Government Meddling Ruined Higher Education, Part 1

by George Leef February 1, 2022

Part 1 | Part 2 There is no need whatsoever for government to provide, subsidize, or control education. As with all other services, people can voluntarily offer to provide teaching or training, and those who are interested in such services can choose among the individuals and institutions offering them in the market. That is true for primary and secondary ...