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Neal McCluskey

Opinion and Commentary


"Obama Gets Inflated Grade on Education Reform," Detroit News, November 14, 2009

"Government Role Will Leave Us with the Bill," Minneapolis Star Tribune, September 30, 2009

"Where's the Evidence?," National Review (Online), September 17, 2009

"Obama's Speech to Students Teaches Lesson About Power," Detroit News, September 16, 2009

"Student Loan Fix Will Prove Costly," Detroit News, August 29, 2009

"SAFRA Stinks," Forbes, August 10, 2009

"Keep Steering Clear of National Standards," Spartanburg Herald Journal, June 15, 2009

"Genuine Change Won't Come this Way," EducationNews.org, May 14, 2009

"In Education, 100 Days of Rhetoric and Not a Minute of Real Reform," TownHall.com, April 29, 2009

"Let's Not Play Standards Roulette," Cleveland Plain Dealer, March 18, 2009

"Obama on Education: Change or Politics as Usual," TownHall.com, March 18, 2009

"A Gift for Everyone on Darwin's Birthday," ednews.org, February 12, 2009

"Investing in What Doesn't Work," by Neal McCluskey and Adam B. Schaeffer, RealClearPolitics.com, February 4, 2009

"Higher-ed Spending Not the Answer," Baltimore Sun, December 17, 2008

"The Bush Years Left Behind," EducationNews.org, December 13, 2008

"Save Parents the Lecture," EducationNews.org, November 3, 2008

"Battleground Stakes," National Review (Online), September 8, 2008

"Higher Math," Washington Times, July 31, 2008

"Every University a Junkie," New York Post, May 30, 2008

"Open the Gates," National Review (Online), May 20, 2008

"Inventing a Student Loan Crisis," American Spectator (Online), April 21, 2008

"No Child Left Ahead," American Spectator (Online), March 13, 2008

"College Tuition Inflaters," American Spectator (Online), February 8, 2008

"Is School Choice Enough?," City Journal, January 24, 2008

"Mama Don't Teach," American Spectator, January 8, 2008

"Unhappy Birthday," National Review (Online), January 8, 2008

"Conservative War on Good Education," ednews.org, October 28, 2007

"End, Don't Mend, No Child Left Behind," Examiner.com, September 21, 2007

"Public Schooling's Divisive Effect," USA TODAY (MAGAZINE), September 1, 2007

"No Standards Left Behind," The Wall Street Journal, July 28, 2007

"Will the Fighting Never End?," Examiner.com, July 11, 2007

"The Real Loan Scandal," New York Post, April 25, 2007

"A David Among the Goliaths," National Review (Online), March 30, 2007

"A Puny Step Forward," American Spectator, March 1, 2007

"Choice Would Take the Fighting Out of Schooling Our Kids," Arizona Republic, February 25, 2007

"Democrats' Middle-Class Payoff," Human Events, January 11, 2007

"Conflicting Views Create Hardship for U.S. Schools," Detroit Free Press, December 17, 2006

"Philly Parents Need Freedom," Evening Bulletin, November 17, 2006

"First We Take Your Money, Then We Take Your Schools," Newark Star-Ledger, October 23, 2006

"They’re All Federal Educators Now," National Review (Online), September 25, 2006

"Subsidy Economics 101," American Spectator, August 22, 2006

"Busting the Myth About Shrinking College Financial Aid," Fox News (Online), June 16, 2006

"Answer to NCLB Failure Is School Choice," Fox News (Online), May 19, 2006

"The Folly of Federal Policy," Inside Higher ED, March 28, 2006

"A Real Competitiveness Initiative," Cato.org, March 18, 2006

"Duke Not the Devil in Sports," Greensboro News & Record, March 9, 2006

"Falling Behind: How Can U.S. Students Get a Top-rate Public Education?," Press-Enterprise, February 5, 2006

"In Book-Banning Story, the System Is Scrooge," DC Examiner, December 29, 2005

"College Kids Need to Hear the World's Smallest Violin: Why Subsidy Cuts Are No Reason to Pity Higher-ed Students," Reason (Online), December 28, 2005

"Texas Ruling Paves Way for Education Reform," Fox News (Online), December 23, 2005

"Obesity Threat: No Child Left Behind for the Ivy League," National Review (Online), November 21, 2005

"No Disaster Big Enough to Permit School Choice," Fox News (Online), October 12, 2005

"An Unconstitutionally Teachable Moment," Cato.org, September 23, 2005

"Public Choices," National Review (Online), September 6, 2005

"Satisfaction without Choice Means Nothing," Palm Beach Post, July 8, 2005

"U.S. Public Schools Failing to Combat Predatory Employees," School Reform News, July 1, 2005

"States Legislators Group Calls for NCLB Overhaul," School Reform News, May 1, 2005

"Violence in Public Schools: A Dirty Secret," School Reform News, May 1, 2005

"School Accountability Accounting," Washington Times, April 24, 2005

"Public High School Grads Unprepared for College, Work," School Reform News, April 1, 2005

"College Un-Prep: Are Schools--or Students--to Blame?," School Reform News, April 1, 2005

"What Women Want," Inside Higher ED, March 30, 2005

"Don't Blame the Market," Inside Higher ED, March 7, 2005

"Pork U. : Higher Education's Scramble for Federal Cash," Reason (Online), March 1, 2005

"Striking a Deal on Professors’ Free Speech," Fox News (Online), February 21, 2005

"Privatize the Evolution Battle," Cato.org, January 21, 2005

"Dracula Landlords and Charter Schools," National Review (Online), December 22, 2004

"Learning Intolerance," Akron Beacon Journal, December 3, 2004

""Ownership Society" Should Start with Education," by David Salisbury and Neal McCluskey, Cato.org, November 20, 2004

"Voters, Don't Accept Schoolyard Bribes," The Baltimore Sun, October 12, 2004

"Taxpayers Suffer from Exaggerated Death of Affordable U.," Cato.org, October 2, 2004

"Presidential Candidates and the School Yard Bribe," National Review (Online), September 16, 2004

"Wither the NEA?," Desert Dispatch, July 13, 2004

"No Federal Failure Left Behind," National Review (Online), July 12, 2004

"D.C. School Choice: Just Getting Started," National Review (Online), June 18, 2004

"How to move beyond Brown," Charlotte Post, June 10, 2004

"I Could Make a Living... Kerry Spins the College Crowd," The Baltimore Sun, May 4, 2004

"Kerry: Rockin' the Taxpayer's Wallet," Cato.org, April 27, 2004

"School Reform Options: Rock or Hard Place?," Cato.org, December 26, 2003

"Taxpayers Carry the College Cost Load," Cato.org, November 7, 2003

"Taxation U.," National Review (Online), November 4, 2003

"CBS: Stumbling Through the Dark Side in Home-schooling Report," Cato.org, October 29, 2003

"Lies, Distortions and School Choice," Cato.org, October 13, 2003

"The Sky Is Not Falling!," Albany Journal, July 8, 2004

"The Tuition Aid Trap," Washington Times, October 9, 2003

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