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Hoover Digest by topic: Vouchers
July 13, 2011
The States Are Back
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Whether racing to the top or sinking in debt (or both), some governors are taking the school-reform baton back from Washington. By Chester E. Finn Jr.
July 13, 2011
The Staggering Power of the Teachers' Unions
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A look at the most powerful force in American education—and it isn’t a force for good. By Terry M. Moe.
April 21, 2010
School of Hard Knocks
The education reform movement is stumbling to a halt, and needs its own version of back to basics. By Chester E. Finn Jr.
April 20, 2009
Obama’s Choice, and Ours
The president shouldn’t be the only public-housing tenant who can send his kids to private schools. By Clint Bolick.
June 27, 2008
A Schoolyard Scrapper
Call him “Troublemaker”—lots of people do. The provocative Chester E. Finn Jr., head of Hoover’s Koret Task Force on K–12 Education, has published a memoir. By Jay Mathews.
October 19, 2007
Equalizing the Schools
Now that race-based school assignment has run aground in the Supreme Court, here’s a better idea: let parents choose the schools their kids attend. By Paul E. Peterson.
January 30, 2007
Milton Friedman’s Unfinished Business
Education policy has turned out to be tougher to crack than the communist bloc. What are the chances Americans will ever be free to choose their own schools? By Eric A. Hanushek.
January 30, 2006
The Father of Modern School Reform
Fifty years after he first proposed school vouchers, Milton Friedman is still on the case. An extended interview with Nick Gillespie of Reason magazine.
January 30, 2006
Katrina and Vouchers
The private market can provide schooling for the children now returning to post-Katrina schools n New Orleans faster—and better—than can the state. By Milton Friedman.
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July 30, 2005
Free to Choose
Half a century after he first proposed school vouchers, Milton Friedman, the “Father of School Choice,” is still on the case.