Articles

Preschool is No Answer, USA Today, January 10, 2002, by David Salisbury.

New Education Bill Offers False Hope, FoxNews.com, January 10, 2002, by David Salisbury

Put One of Arizona's Schools on Your Gift List, East Valley Tribune, December 27, 2001, by Dan Lips

More Testing Won't Improve Education, FoxNews.com, December 20, 2001, by Dan Lips

Marion Barry's Lost Generation, Cato Daily Commentary, December 11, 2001, by Dan Lips

Unions vs. Education: Teachers Unions Beat the Latest Reform Initiative, National Review Online, November 20, 2001, by David Boaz

School-Choice Alternatives, National Review Online, September 6, 2001, by Dan Lips

Arizona School-Choice Plan Provides Model, USA Today, August 22, 2001, by Carrie Lips

School Choice for America's Future, Islamic Institute Issues, August 15, 2001, by Dan Lips

Mandatory Preschool Another Power Grab, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, August 2, 2001, by Darcy Olsen

Congress Trashes Local Control of Schools, June 23, 2001, by David Boaz

Teachers Deserve Merit Pay, Not Special Interests, The Cincinatti Enquirer, June 1, 2001, by Darcy Olsen

Reagan's ABCs, National Review Online, May 22, 2001, by Dan Lips

Up from Mediocrity, National Review Online, May 15, 2001, by Darcy Olsen, Carrie Lips, and Dan Lips

Unlocking Parent Power, National Review Online, May 14, 2001, by Sheldon Richman

Put Parents in Control, USA Today, May 10, 2001, by Darcy Olsen

Education Tax Credits Can Give NH Parents and Students More Choice, The Union Leader, April 26, 2001, by Darcy Olsen and Dan Lips

It's the Children, Stupid, The Washington Times, February 19, 2001, by Darcy Olsen and Dan Lips

Vouching for Bush, National Review Online, January 25, 2001, by Darcy Olsen

Give Parents the Reins, USA Today, January 24, 2001, by Darcy Olsen

Another Path to School Choice, Washington Times, December 13, 2000, by Darcy Olsen and Matthew J. Brouillette

Ready to Learn? Facts & Questions About a Universal Early Childhood Program for Pennsylvania, Family First Alliance, December, 2000, by Darcy Olsen

For-profit Schools Catching On, Atlanta Journal Constitution, December 20, 2000, by Carrie Lips

Empowering Parents Through Choice, October 20, 2000, by Phil Vassallo

Gore Federalizes Early Childhood, National Review Online, September 13, 2000, by Darcy Olsen

It's Time to Stop Head Start, Human Events, September 1, 2000, by Darcy Olsen

Credits for the Deserving; Vouchers Would Let Families Opt Out of Failing Public Schools, The Arizona Republic, August 23, 2000, by Darcy Olsen and Dan Lips

Gore on the Wrong Side of History, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, August 23, 2000, by Casey J. Lartigue Jr.

Dems of Cheney's School, The New York Post, August 22, 2000, by Casey J. Lartigue Jr.

Canceling Summer Vacation, June 20, 2000, by Darcy Olsen

The Department of Education: An Anti-Celebration , May 4, 2000, by Darcy Olsen

You'll Never Guess What South Korea Frowns Upon, The Washington Post, May 28, 2000 by Casey Lartigue

Home Schooling and Histrionics, Los Angeles Daily Journal, June 29, 2000, by Isabel Lyman

A New Twist on Parental Choice, March 1, 2000, by Tom Palmer

Two Opposing Libertarian Arguments in the Custody Case of Elian Gonzalez, February 5, 2000, by Tom Palmer and Derrick Max

Preschool is not the answer, USA Today, December 28, 1999, by Darcy Olsen

Home schoolers face barriers in Oklahoma, The Dallas Morning News, December 13, 1999, by Isabel Lyman

Who should decide what Amy should eat? Arizona Republic, October 2, 1999, by Darcy Olsen

When schools already get so much money, do they need more?, Los Angeles Times, October 29, 1999, by Benjamin Zycher

Politicizing class size, Education Week, September 29, 1999, by Casey J. Lartigue

Benefits of preschool don’t last, The Atlanta Journal, August 10, 1999, by Darcy Olsen

Preschool in the nanny state, The Weekly Standard, August 9, 1999, by Darcy Olsen

Head Start ought to be ended, The Atlanta Journal, March 16, 1999, by Darcy Olsen and Eric Olsen

Let the children go, The Washington Times, March 10, 1999, by David Boaz

Just another buzzword, The Korea Times, February 4, 1999, by Casey J. Lartigue

Illiteracy…bad news and good, The Washington Times, January 22, 1999, by David Boaz

Child-care crisis? Not for parents, Philadelphia Inquirer, May 29, 1998, by Darcy Olsen

America's most costly educational failure, April 29, 1998, by Paul Ciotti

Homeschooling: The best education reform, March 24, 1998, by Isabel Lyman

Republican senators play follow the leader, Gaston Gazette, February 8, 1998, by Darcy Ann Olsen

Give parents what they need: tax cuts, Atlanta Journal, January 14, 1998, by Darcy Olsen

Parents vs. school officials: who decides?, Washington Times, October 1996, by David Boaz

A right to safer schools, The Washington Post, February 26, 1995, by David Boaz

Studies

"The Arizona Scholarship Tax Credit: Giving Parents Choices, Saving Taxpayers Money," Cato Institute Policy Analysis, September 17, 2001, by Carrie Lips and Jennifer Jacoby.

"Lessons from Maine: Education Vouchers for Students since 1873," Cato Institutte Briefing Paper, September 10, 2001, by Frank Heller.

"Lessons from Vermont: 132-Year-Old Voucher Program Rebuts Critics," Cato Institute Briefing Paper, September 10, 2001, by Libby Sternberg.

Fiscal Analysis of a $500 Federal Education: Tax Credit to Help Millions, Save Billions, May 1, 2001, by Darcy Ann Olsen, Carrie Lips, and Dan Lips.

Parent Power: Why National Standards Won't Improve Education, April 26, 2001, by Sheldon Richman.

Toward Market Education: Are Vouchers or Tax Credits the Better Path? February 22, 2001, by Andrew J. Coulson.

Reclaiming Our Schools: Increasing Parental Control of Education through the Universal Education Credit, December 6, 2000, by Darcy Olsen and Matthew J. Brouillette.

Edupreneurs: A Survey of For-Profit Education, November 20, 2000, by Carrie Lips.

More than Grades: How Choice Boosts Parental Involvement and Benefits Children, 0ctober 26, 2000, by Philip Vassallo.

A 12-Hour School Day? Why Government Should Leave After-School Arrangements to Parents, June 7, 2000, by Darcy Ann Olsen

Universal Preschool Is No Golden Ticket: Why Government Should Not Enter the Preschool Business, February 9, 1999, by Darcy Ann Olsen

Money and School Performance: Lessons from the Kansas City School Desegregation Experiment, March 16, 1998, by Paul Ciotti

Homeschooling: Back to the Future?, January 7, 1998, by Isabel Lyman

The Advancing Nanny State: Why the Government Should Stay Out of Child Care, October 23, 1997, by Darcy Olsen

The Threat to Independent Education: Public Subsidies and Private Colleges, August 15, 1997, by Gary Wolfram

Vouchers and Educational Freedom: A Debate, March 12, 1997, featuring Joseph L. Bast and David Harmer versus Douglas Dewey

What Would a School Voucher Buy?, March 26, 1996, by David Boaz and Morris Barrett

Public Schools: Make Them Private, June 23, 1995, by Milton Friedman

Testimony

Child Care, February 23, 1998, by Darcy Ann Olsen before the Subcommittee on Children and Families, United States Senate

Books

Department of Education, 1999, by David Boaz, The Cato Handbook for Congress: Policy Recommendations for the 106th Congress

Child Care, 1999, by Darcy Ann Olsen, The Cato Handbook for Congress: Policy Recommendations for the 106th Congress

Why Schools Fail, 1996, by Bruce Goldberg. Goldberg, a professor of philosophy at the University of Maryland, argues that there is no such thing as educational science. Educators and psychologists still don't really know how children learn and how schools can help them. In particular, educational theory fails to take fully into account children's individuality. The idea that everyone must follow some general plan is at the core of the failure of the schools. This provocative essay criticizes educational theorists from Horace Mann to Jean Piaget to Ernest Boyer and offers a reform plan based on choice and individualism.

Educational Freedom in Eastern Europe, 1995, by Charles L. Glenn. One of the great triumphs of post-Communist Eastern Europe is the reform of statist school systems. Not only have the schools thrown off Communist dogma and attempted to remake themselves in a Western style, many of the formerly Communist countries have given parents a choice in schools. In fact, in Poland, Russia, and the Czech Republic, parents now have more freedom to choose the schools their children will attend than American parents do. This book was commissioned by the U.S. Department of Education, delayed by the Clinton administration, and finally published in an edition of only 100 copies. Cato's publication is the first generally available edition of this important book.

School Choice: Why You Need It--How You Get It, 1994, by David Harmer. Harmer explains why the public schools no longer work, why they resist reform, and why choice is the reform that will work. He also gives us the inside story of California's pioneering 1993 Parental Choice in Education initiative and the education establishment's successful $16 million campaign to defeat it. Harmer explains how other states can adapt the initiative to their needs and what lessons can be learned from its defeat. His annotated description of the California initiative is required reading for anyone seeking to write a strong school choice law.

Liberating Schools: Education in the Inner City, 1990, by David Boaz. In this thought-provoking book, eleven scholars and educators discuss the decline in the quality of urban education and offer alternative strategies for teaching America's youth. David Boaz's comprehensive introduction has been hailed as the best available argument for educational choice. William A. Niskanen speaks out against repeated government excuses for failed education reform programs. Journalist Bonita Brodt and teacher Ben Peterson report from the front lines. Schools should be accountable to students, parents, and teachers, not to bureaucrats, politicians, and interest groups, argue John E. Chubb and Terry M. Moe in an encyclopedic set of questions and answers about choice programs. The goal of every essay in this volume is to return quality education to American classrooms.