ISIL Freedom Network: Global > Introductions and FAQs > Education
- TOC Study Guide: Montessori Education
Source: The Objectivist Center
Author: Marsha Familaro Enright and Doris Cox
Country: United States
E-mail: toc@objectivistcenter.org
- An overview of the Montessori system from the objectivist perspective. Available as a pamphlet, or online in html and pdf format.
- Raising kids takes more than a village ... or even Head Start
Source: Reason Foundation
Author: Michael W. Lynch
Country: United States
E-mail: mwlynch@concentric.net
- Michael Lynch's answer to those who "want to use pictures and stories of vulnerable infants to persuade Americans of the need for higher taxes and new federal programs."
- Hyping the Head Start Program
Source: Mackinac Center for Public Policy
Author: John Hood
City: Midland, State: MI, Country: United States
- Hood's article questions the effectiveness of this government preschool program.
- Child-Proofing the World
Source: Reason Foundation
Author: Nick Gillespie
Country: United States
- A study of child-protectionism.
- The FCC's Children's Television Rules
Source: Cato Institute
Author: Robert Corn-Revere
City: Washington, State: DC, Country: United States
- "Judging by the growing number of regulations of media content that are being justified by the perceived need to protect minors, it takes a child to raze the constitutional rights of a village."
- Six Myths of School Finance Reform
Source: The Heartland Institute
Author: Joseph L. Bast
City: Chicago, State: IL, Country: United States
E-mail: think@heartland.org
- Why higher taxes and increased school spending are not the answers to problems in educational reform.
- We Don't Need No (Public) Education
Source: Free-Market.Net Media Spotlight
Author: J.D. Tuccille
Country: United States
E-mail: media@free-market.net
- How the mass media treats private vs. government schooling.
- Government Schools in Crisis
Source: International Society for Individual Liberty
Author: George L. O'Brien
Country: United States
E-mail: isil@isil.org
- ISIL pamphlet discusses the history of government schooling and why it has produced so poorly, and the libertarian alternative. "The battle cry for choice in education is central to bringing about a free society." (1997)
- A Response to Progressive Educators
Source: publicfamily.com
Author: Dan Johnson
Country: United States
E-mail: comments@publicfamily.com
- This paper is offered to address academic controversies raised in Johnson's "The Public Family, The Ideas That Shaped Your Child's School."
- A Response to Traditional Educators
Source: publicfamily.com
Author: Dan Johnson
Country: United States
E-mail: comments@publicfamily.com
- A paper on matters of social learning and general social organization which will be of concern to traditional educators, as well as pedagogy, child rearing, schooling and family specific issues presented in "The Public Family: The Ideas That Shaped Your Child's School."
- The Montessori Movement and Its Enemies
Source: Libertarian Alliance
Author: David Botsford
Country: United States
- Examines the work of Maria Montessori and considers her as perhaps the greatest single pioneer in the liberation of the human mind. Also details the opposition she faced to her radical educational ideas.
- Public school violence: an adult problem
Source: National Center for Public Policy Research
Author: Mike Green
Country: United States
- Conservative cultural commentary indicting secular society's embrace of vice as a root cause of school violence and concluding with a call for school choice. (6/99)
- States devise escape routes from failing schools
Source: Heartland Institute
Country: United States
- "During 1999 more than ever before, governors, big-city mayors, and state legislators have taken over from policy analysts and public interest groups the leadership role in advocating school choice as a means of directly addressing the problem of students in failing public schools." From Heartland's School Reform News for June, 1999.
- More than one fourth of Americans want to end public education
Source: Separation of School and State Alliance
Country: United States
- According to a 1998 poll, 27% of Americans support repealing compulsory school attendance and ending tax support for schooling -- and 57% do if they are "assured that there would be enough private scholarships available so that all poor and disadvantaged students had the chance to go to better schools than today."
- 21 ways 'public schools' harm your children
Source: Separation of School and State Alliance / Education Liberator
Author: R.C. Hoiles
Country: United States
- "It is a crime of crimes to compel pupils to attend schools where the teacher dare not teach moral laws. It is hard to conceive how anything can do more harm than the kind of 'education' we are getting in tax-run schools." (02-03/97)
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