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Articles & Essays

See also:
The Principle and Practice of Compulsion in Education
E.G. West Centre
This page links to numerous articles about compulsion.

Suggested reading on education, schooling, and freedom, from diverse sources, listed in chronological order by date of original publication. (More suggestions in the Books section.)

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» Featured Articles, Essays, and Commentary
Articles that specifically address or provide particular insight into the legitimacy, history, or consequences of systems of schooling, particularly those that are compulsory, state-controlled, state-regulated, and/or tax-funded.

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Featured Articles, Essays, and Columns

Education and the First Amendment
Barry Loberfeld | The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty | September 2002

Freedom of Religion and Public Schooling
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James R. Otteson | The Independent Review | Spring 2000

Dangerous Minds
David Edwards | Atlantic Free Press | December 2006

School and State: A Neat Solution to the Neatby Dispute
Daniel Hager | The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty | December 2003

Against School: How Public Education Cripples Our Kids, and Why
John Taylor Gatto | Harper's Magazine | September 2003

Here We Go Again
Anthony Gregory | LewRockwell.com | September 2005

What Has Government Done to Our Families?
Allan Carlson | Ludwig von Mises Institute | January 2004

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Added September 2007

School's Out
Matt Hern | Adbusters #57 | Jan/Feb 2005

Added August 2007

Is Universal Preschool Beneficial? An Assessment of Rand Corporation's Analysis and Proposals for California
Christopher F. Cardiff and Edward Stringham | Reason Foundation | May 2006
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Added June 2007

Future School
Interview with Alvin Toffler | Edutopia Magazine | February 2007

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Undated Articles, Essays, and Columns

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Published in 2007

Future School
Interview with Alvin Toffler | Edutopia Magazine | February 2007

The voice of children is not the state
Annie Hall | wheretruthgrows | February 2007

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Published in 2006

Legalizing Markets in Happiness and Well-Being, Part I
Michael Strong | Edspresso | July 2006
Legalize Markets in Happiness and Well-Being, Part II
Michael Strong | Edspresso | December 2006

Dangerous Minds
David Edwards | Atlantic Free Press | December 2006

The Decision to Unschool
Holly Graff | Unschool Days | November 2006

Educating Amaretch: Private schools for the poor and the new frontier for investors
James Tooley | Financial Times | September 2006

Education: Free and Compulsory
Murray N. Rothbard | Ludwig von Mises Institute | September 2006
Originally published in 1976

The Quality of a Free Man
Claire Wolfe | Backwoods Home Magazine | July 2006

Is Universal Preschool Beneficial? An Assessment of Rand Corporation's Analysis and Proposals for California
Christopher F. Cardiff and Edward Stringham | Reason Foundation | May 2006
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Backing the Wrong Horse: How Private Schools Are Good for the Poor
James Tooley | The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty | May 2006
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What's Wrong With Education? It's the Government, Stupid!
Doug Newman | Strike The Root | March 2006

A Brief Review of "Educational Neglect and Compulsory Schooling: A Status Report"
Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | National Home Education Research Institute | January 2006

The One Economics Job Mr. Greenspan Can't Have
Terrence Moore | Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs at Ashland University | January 2006

It Takes Government to Create a Reading Crisis
Sheldon Richman | Future of Freedom Foundation | January 2006

School-Choice Flaws
Sheldon Richman | Future of Freedom Foundation | January 2006

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Published in 2005

Changing the Education Paradigm
Scott McPherson | Future of Freedom Foundation | November 2005

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Published in 2004

Educator Sexual Misconduct: A Synthesis of Existing Literature (2004)
U.S. Department of Education
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State Schooling
Benjamin Marks | LewRockwell.com | October 2004

The Limits of Money
Frederick M. Hess | American Enterprise Institute | September 2004

The Social Contract Is Null and Void
Anthony Gregory | Strike The Root | April 2004

The Abolition of Grandparents
Gary North | LewRockwell.com | April 2004

For they know not what they do
Chris Basten | March 2004

A Wise Consistency
US Rep Ron Paul | Project Freedom | February 2004

Starting a Brush Fire for Freedom
An Interview with US Rep Ron Paul | John W. Whitehead | oldSpeak | The Rutherford Institute | February 2004

What Has Government Done to Our Families?
Allan Carlson | Ludwig von Mises Institute | January 2004

Tiny Totalitarian States
Crispin Sartwell | Creators Syndicate | January 2004

They Pry Them from Our Cold Dead Fingers
Sharon Harris | LewRockwell.com | January 2004

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Published in 2003

School and State: A Neat Solution to the Neatby Dispute
Daniel Hager | The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty | December 2003

Government School Teachers Are Overpaid
Brad Edmonds | LewRockwell.com | December 2003

» See also:
Teacher salaries higher than public thinks, expert says
The Tennessean | 06.03.03
"When salaries are computed on an hourly basis, public school teachers generally earn more than registered nurses, accountants, engineers and other middle-class workers, says Michael Podgursky, chairman of the University of Missouri's economics department."