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# *School Choice Myths: Setting the Record Straight on Education Freedom*

### (Cato Institute, 2020) 

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Featuring **Patrick Wolf** ([@P\_Diddy\_Wolf](https://www.twitter.com/P_Diddy_Wolf)), Contributor, Professor, and 21st Century Chair in School Choice, Department of Education Reform, University of Arkansas; **Tim Keller**, Contributor and Senior Attorney, Institute for Justice; **Inez Feltscher Stepman**, ([@InezFeltscher](https://www.twitter.com/InezFeltscher)) Contributor and Senior Policy Analyst, Independent Women’s Forum; **Ben Scafidi**, Contributor, Professor of Economics, and Director of the Education Economics Center at Kennesaw State University; and **Corey DeAngelis** ([@DeAngelisCorey](https://www.twitter.com/DeAngelisCorey)), Co-editor and Director of School Choice, Reason Foundation; moderated by **Neal McCluskey** ([@NealMcCluskey](https://www.twitter.com/NealMcCluskey)), Co-editor and Director, Center for Educational Freedom, Cato Institute.

School choice has grown a lot since 1990—from zero kids taking public education funds to private schools to over a half million doing so—but progress has been slow. One reason: a constant drumbeat of myths, including that choice cripples public schools, undermines democracy, and leaves poor kids behind. In the new Cato book *School Choice Myths: Setting the Record Straight on Education Freedom*, top scholars dispel 12 of the most pernicious myths.

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### *[School Choice Myths: Setting the Record Straight on Education Freedom](https://www.amazon.com/School-Choice-Myths-Straight-Education/dp/1948647907?tag=catoinstitute-20)*

So many myths stand in the way of expanding educational freedom to all Americans: choice drains money from public schools; choice segregates; choice undermines democracy; and so on. In *School Choice Myths*, editors Corey A. DeAngelis and Neal P. McCluskey bring clear logic and overwhelming evidence to bear against all the major anti school-choice myths, giving readers what they need to see though them and understand how even well-intentioned people can be deceived.

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