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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

Backing the Wrong Horse: How Private Schools Are Good for the Poor
James Tooley | The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty | May 2006

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