Walter E Williams takes a hard look at the modern American school system.
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Entrepreneur Starts Network of Private Schools; Outperforms, Underspends Public Schools
Entrepreneur and Mises Institute benefactor Bob Luddy grew frustrated trying to work within the system, and eventually established a series of private schools whose results have been outstanding.
Yuri Maltsev: Why Socialism Endures
Yuri Maltsev, a victim of Soviet totalitarianism in his youth, explains how and why westerners still don’t understand what socialism really means. He recounts his many trips to Cuba, and demolishes the myths surrounding that country’s vaunted “healthcare” and “education” systems. He explains how socialism actually produces a superclass of elites and a form of […]
The Real Fidel Castro, Not the Cutesy One Who Made Everyone Literate
The version of Fidel Castro’s life we get from Hollywood and the media is cartoonish and laughable. Here’s the real story of Cuba and Castro, with every progressive talking point answered.
Education System Broken: Let’s Try ‘Ed-Exit’
By Ron Paul Maryland Governor Larry Hogan recently signed an executive order forbidding Maryland public schools from beginning classes before Labor Day. Governor Hogan’s executive order benefits businesses in Maryland’s coastal areas that lose school-aged summer employees and business from Maryland families when schools start in August. However, as Governor Hogan’s critics have pointed out, […]
Parental Choice in Education
How We Lost Economics | Jeff Deist
Jeff Deist comments on the state of economics and what the Mises Institute is doing about it. Trasnscript below. A journalist from The Chronicle of Higher Education contacted me recently asking about free-market think tanks affiliated with universities. Can the Mises Institute or other organizations produce the scientific foundation for what he sees as an […]
On the Rise and Fall of the University
Rahim Taghizadegan explains at the recent 2016 Property and Freedom Society Annual Meeting in Bodrum, Turkey.
Olivier Richard – On Free and Compulsory Education
This talk was given at the 2016 Property and Freedome Society Annual Meeting in Bodrum, Turkey. Seperate school and state.
Thomas Sowell – Educational Damage from Preferential Policies
Dr. Sowell explains incentives put into play by affirmative action policies that serve to damage the advancement of minority students.