Educational Choice

October 03, 2017

Sec. DeVos defends school choice in speech at Harvard

In a speech last Thursday at the Harvard Kennedy School, U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos made a powerful defense of school choice: One of the many pernicious effects of the growth of government is that its people worry less and less about each other, thinking their worries are now in the hands of so-called “experts” in Washington. Continue Reading...

February 23, 2017

What public schools should learn from homeschool economics

Embed from Getty Images   If our new Education Secretary, Betsy DeVos, is looking for a creative way to fix our public schools, she should look to homeschoolers. As Thomas Purifoy explains, homeschooling offers a model for how our schools can be run more effectively. Continue Reading...

January 27, 2017

A businessman who builds low-cost private schools for the masses

Many people complain about the poor quality of America’s public schools. But Bob Luddy did something about it. Tired of trying to convince North Carolina bureaucrats to improve the state’s public schools, Luddy built his own network of low-cost private schools that the government can’t meddle with. Continue Reading...

January 23, 2017

Explainer: What you should know about ‘school choice’

In honor of the seventh annual National School Choice Week, here are some facts you should know about school choice in America. What does “school choice” mean? The term “school choice” refers to programs that give parents the power and opportunity to choose the schools their children attend, whether public, private, parochial, or homeschool. Continue Reading...