• SUPPORT CATO
• FOR STUDENTS
• FOR MEDIA
• FREE NEWSLETTERS

• HOME

• ABOUT

• BLOG

• BOOKSTORE

• EVENTS

Event Archives

Event Podcast

Event FAQs

Cato University

Directions to Cato

Contact Cato

• EXPERTS

• MULTIMEDIA

• PUBLICATIONS

• RESEARCH AREAS

• SPEAKERS BUREAU

• SUPPORT CATO

• CATO UNBOUND

• DOWNSIZING
  GOVERNMENT.ORG

• ELCATO.ORG

Creating a True Marketplace in Education

HALF-DAY CONFERENCE
Tuesday, September 28, 2004
8:00 am (Luncheon to follow)

The Cato Institute
1000 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20001

This Cato half-day Conference is free of charge.

The free market offers almost limitless choices in everything from what we eat, to the books we read, to the vehicles we drive. It's constantly at work, providing ever broadening opportunities for us to increase our happiness and realize our dreams. Yet, when it comes to American elementary and secondary education, there is no free market; government dictates where children will go to school, when they will go, what they will learn, and how much money will be spent. It's a lifeless system that produces poor academic achievement and widespread disaffection rather than a diverse array of effective educational options. So how do we go from the status quo to an alternative that thrives on the dynamism of the market? What are the essential requirements for such a system? Where can we find market-based education already at work? These and other questions will be tackled in a half-day conference that examines the potential, and track record, of improving education by using the power of the free market.

8:30--9:00 a.m.	Registration
9:00 -- 10:30 a.m.	Panel 1 -- What Is an Education Marketplace?
	Watch Panel 1 in RealVideo Listen to Panel 1 in RealAudio John Merrifield Professor of Economics University of Texas at San Antonio John Wenders Professor of Economics, Emeritus University of Idaho Lisa Snell Director of Education and Child Welfare Reason Public Policy Institute Myron Lieberman Chairman Education Policy Institute
10:30 a.m. -- 12:00 p.m.	Panel 2 -- Education Today: Are We Closer to a Market?
	Watch Panel 2 in RealVideo Listen to Panel 2 in RealAudio Andrew Coulson Senior Fellow for Education Policy Mackinac Center for Public Policy Richard Vedder Professor of Economics Ohio University Claudia Hepburn Director of Education Policy Fraser Institute Robert Enlow Executive Director Milton and Rose D. Friedman Foundation
12:00--1:00 p.m.	Lunch

This Cato half-day conference is free of charge. To register for this event, please fill out the form below and click submit or email events@cato.org, fax (202) 371-0841, or call (202) 789-5229 by 8:00 am, Monday, September 27, 2004. Please arrive early. Seating is limited and not guaranteed. News media inquiries only (no registrations), please call (202) 789-5200. If you can't make it to the Cato Institute, watch this forum live online.

Registration for this event is closed.