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Neal McCluskey
Associate Director, Center for Educational Freedom
Neal McCluskey is the associate director of Cato's Center for Educational Freedom. Prior to arriving at Cato, McCluskey served in the U.S. Army, taught high school English, and was a freelance reporter covering municipal government and education in suburban New Jersey. More recently, he was a policy analyst at the Center for Education Reform. McCluskey is the author of the book Feds in the Classroom: How Big Government Corrupts, Cripples, and Compromises American Education, and his writings have appeared in such publications as the Wall Street Journal, Baltimore Sun, and Forbes. In addition to his written work, McCluskey has appeared on C-SPAN, CNN, the Fox News Channel, and numerous radio programs. McCluskey holds undergraduate degrees from Georgetown University in government and English, a master's degree in political science from Rutgers University, and is a Ph.D. candidate in public policy at George Mason University.
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E-Mail: nmccluskey@cato.org
Books and Book Chapters
"Learning Fear: Climate Change and Public Education," Climate Coup: Climate Coup: Global Warming's Invasion of Our Government and Our Lives (2011), pp. 215-234.
"Higher Education," Chapter 21 of the Cato Handbook for Policymakers, 7th edition.
Feds In The Classroom: How Big Government Corrupts,Cripples, and Compromises American Education, (2007).
"Cato Handbook on Policy, 6th edition," Chapter 29: Higher Education, February 2005.
Cato Studies
"How Much Ivory Does This Tower Need? What We Spend on, and Get from, Higher Education," Policy Analysis no. 686, October 27, 2011.
"Behind the Curtain: Assessing the Case for National Curriculum Standards," Policy Analysis no. 661, February 17, 2010.
"Unbearable Burden? Living and Paying Student Loans as a First-Year Teacher," Policy Analysis no. 629, December 15, 2008.
"End It, Don't Mend It: What to Do with No Child Left Behind," by Neal McCluskey and Andrew J. Coulson, Policy Analysis no. 599, September 5, 2007.
"Why We Fight: How Public Schools Cause Social Conflict," Policy Analysis no. 587, January 23, 2007.
Articles and Newsletters
"Are Students Borrowing More Than Their Educations Are Worth?," CQ Researcher, October 21, 2011.
"Coming Soon: The Federal Department of Standardized Minds," The Freeman Magazine, vol. 61 no. 6, July/August 2011.
"Book Review: The Making of Americans: Democracy and Our Schools," Cato Journal, Winter 2010, vol. 30, no. 1.
"How High Is Teacher Pay in Oklahoma?," Oklahoma Journal of Public Affairs, June 2009, vol. 16, no. 6.
"Book Review: See Government Grow: Education Politics from Johnson to Reagan," Cato Journal, Winter 2008, vol. 28, no. 1.
Opinion and Commentary
"Obama's Higher Education Reforms Doomed to Fail," Investor's Business Daily, February 1, 2012
"One Size Does Not Fit All," The New York Times (Online), January 24, 2012
"No Child -- And the Latest Lost Decade," Atlanta Journal-Constitution, January 9, 2012
"NCLB: Perspectives on the Law," Education Week, January 5, 2012
"Why Can't We Stop Fighting Over Christmas?," Washington Times, December 22, 2011
Cato @ Liberty Blog Posts
"Welcome to Our War-torn World, Health Care," February 9, 2012
"Waiving Goodbye to the Constitution," February 9, 2012
"Obama Is Avoiding the Tough College Course," January 27, 2012
"No Common Schools, No Peace?," January 25, 2012
"Promises Unfulfilled? What Next, Federal Education Failure?," January 12, 2012
Events
"How Much Ivory Does This Tower Need? ," October 27, 2011 [Capitol Hill Briefing]
"Helping Students or Ballooning College Profits: What's Federal Money Doing?," July 19, 2011 [Policy Forum]
"Getting "No Child Left Behind" Right," June 20, 2011 [Capitol Hill Briefing]
"Fiscal Undertow: How Public Schools Are Drowning State and Local Budgets, and What to Do about It," January 11, 2011 [Policy Forum]
"Profiting from Ivory Towers?," November 30, 2010 [Policy Forum]
Speeches and Testimony
"The Federal Government's Real — but Very Dangerous and Limited — Role in Confronting Bullying and Harassment," U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, June 20, 2011.
"Modern Public School Facilities: Investing in the Future," February 13, 2008.
Multimedia
Obama Proposes Higher Ed Price Controls (February 7, 2012) [Daily Podcast, 07:57]
State of the Union 2012 (January 27, 2012) [Cato Video, 09:39]
Ten Years of No Child Left Behind Failure (January 6, 2012) [Daily Podcast, 07:19]
No Child Left Behind: A Decade of Failure (January 6, 2012) [Cato Video, 03:43]
Neal McCluskey discusses the education reform movement on Choice Media TV (November 30, 2011) [Media Highlights - TV, 07:04]
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