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The Cato Institute tops a new measure of think tank performance in the United States, according to a recent report. Cato bested all other U.S. think tanks in the main category of “Aggregate Profile per Dollar Spent.” “I’m grateful to the Center for Global Development for showing that Cato gives its sponsors something I wish government gave more of to taxpayers: bang for the buck,” said Cato CEO John Allison.
Hoosiers Are Right to Be Wary about Common Core
By Neal McCluskey. Indy Star. April 30, 2013.
Keeping Low-income Students from Being Throwaway Kids
By Nat Hentoff. Cato.org. April 3, 2013.
Teachers and Education Reformers Bypass Individual Students
By Nat Hentoff. Cato.org. March 27, 2013.
Young Pawns in Sequestration Fight
By Neal McCluskey. Orange County Register. March 1, 2013.
Students Differ, And So Should Schools
By Neal McCluskey. The New York Times. December 10, 2012.
Here Come New Sons and Daughters of Liberty
By Nat Hentoff. Cato.org. November 28, 2012.
By Adam B. Schaeffer. New York Daily News. September 6, 2012.
Education Spending Doesn’t Deliver
By Neal McCluskey. Chattanooga Times Free Press. August 21, 2012.
By Michael D. Tanner. National Review (Online). August 15, 2012.
By Andrew J. Coulson. The Wall Street Journal. July 10, 2012.
Title IX Swings Wildly at Invisible Enemy
By Neal McCluskey. Daily Caller. June 21, 2012.
The Only Reality That Matters to Obama Is Political
By Neal McCluskey. Providence Journal. May 6, 2012.
The Reason Obama Is Pushing for More Federal Education Spending
By Neal McCluskey. Daily Caller. May 1, 2012.
Education’s Missing Apple: The Free Enterprise Solution?
By Andrew J. Coulson. Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity. March 19, 2012.
Poor Measures? Choice Is the Answer
By Neal McCluskey. New York Post. February 25, 2012.
By Neal McCluskey. The New York Times (Online). January 24, 2012.
No Child — And the Latest Lost Decade
By Neal McCluskey. Atlanta Journal-Constitution. January 9, 2012.
By Neal McCluskey. Education Week. January 5, 2012.
How to Cut the Budget and Improve Schools
By Andrew J. Coulson. Huffington Post. December 13, 2011.
Solving the Long-Term Jobs Problem
By Arnold Kling and Nick Schulz. The American. July 27, 2011.
How Sweden Profits from For-Profit Schools
By Andrew J. Coulson. Svenska Dagbladet. July 11, 2011.
By Neal McCluskey. Orange County Register. July 9, 2011.
By Andrew J. Coulson. American Spectator. June 17, 2011.
The Battle for Education Freedom
By Neal McCluskey. National Review (Online). May 23, 2011.
Education Waste: We Have Only Ourselves to Blame
By Neal McCluskey. Orange County Register. February 15, 2011.