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Articles Criticizing Public Schools: An Exercise in Futility? (06/08) The Cristo Rey Network (06/08) Socializing Homeschooled Students (05/08) Public School Questions (05/08) What Are "Public" Schools? (05/08) Still A Nation at Risk? (05/08) Education Freedom Day - June 1st (04/08) No Golden Age for Schooling (04/08) School Choice: The Bad Good News (04/08) School Reform Predictions: Easier Said Then Done (04/08) Teaching's "Good Old Days" (03/08) Paying Teachers $125,000. (03/08) School Choice and "Creative Destruction" (3/08) Charter Schools: Here to Stay (03/08) Cities, Schools, and Choice (02/08)  Paying Students (02/08) School Critics:  From the Beginning (02/08) School Ideas: In Practice, Not Just Theoretical (02/08) Schooling's Status Quo: Could Individual Choice Possibly Be Worse?  (01/08) School Reform Advances: Here and There, But Not Everywhere (01/08) The School Choice Glacier: Slow Moving But Unstoppable (01/08) "Bridge to Literacy," No Child, or Adult, Left Behind, by John Corcoran (01/08) School Reform: Easier Said Than Done (12/07) School Funding: Sing a Song of Sixpence, or $4.61 Billion, or Whatever (12/07) Charter Schools: A School Reform That Works  (12/07) Milwaukee Schools: Proving that Vouchers, Charters and Choice Work  (12/07) School Reform: Lessons from Utah (11/07) School Choice Initiatives - An Impossible Dream? (11/07) Accreditation: More Shadow Than Substance (11/07) Student Aid and College Tuition: The Upward Spiral (11/07) College/University Endowments: How High Is Up? (10/07) Supreme Court Errors: Dred Scott, Plessy, & Everson (10/07) Government Funding = Government Strings? (10/07) Blaine Amendments: Time To End the Bigotry (10/07) The Living Past: "Blaine Amendments" (9/07) Violence in the Schools (9/07) The Incredible Edible Schoolyard (9/07) New Orleans: Charter Schools' Ground Zero (9/07) Teacher Competency: Quotes With a Comment (8/07) Public School Criticism  (8/07) The Educational Morass  (8/07) Early Education: If It Ain't Broke...  (8/07) Teacher Competency and The Eye of the Beholder (8/07) Pre-K Schooling: An Irresistible Force? (7/07) School Legal Issues: Footnotes and Sidelights  (7/07) High School/College  (7/07) U.S. Supreme Court Bans Race-Based School Attendance Plans  (7/07) Smaller Classes=Lower Achievement; Counter-Intuitive?  (6/07) Class Size: Where Belief Trumps Reality  (6/07) School Funding Requests: Ah, the Monotony of It  (6/07) Blaming the Student (6/07) New Orleans Schools - Chaos Creates Opportunities (6/07) Teacher Salaries: More Attention Needed to Specifics (6/07) Public Schools Repeat Proven Failure (6/07) Preschool School: Proceed With Caution (6/07) See Article Archives for additional articles School Choice Newsletters & Briefs Newsletter Archives Books Choice in Schooling  9-90 School Choice: The Idea That Will Not Die. 10-97 Words of Wisdom:   "...the basic problem with public education: it takes place in a government institution." --Joel Stein, after taking part in a Principal for a Day program in NYC, p. 32, TIME Magazine, May 8, 2000  "Education is the established church of the United States. It is one of the religions that Americans believe in. It has its own orthodoxy, its pontiffs and its noble buildings." --Sir Michael Sadler, The New York Times, Sept. 1, 1956  "I had a terrible education .  I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers." --Woody ‘Allen, Public ‘Education Network (PEN) email, Oct. 26, 2001

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