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Listen in on Atlas’s December International Thursday event featuring the following speakers :
The Chilean Presidential Election- commentary by Alex Chafuen, Atlas Economic Research Foundation, with up to date analysis by phone from Cristián Larroulet at Libertad y Desarollo in Chile.
Ray Walser- Senior Policy Analyst for Latin America, Heritage Foundation. Topic: the recent elections in Honduras.
Brigadier General [...]
Classes in D.C. public schools start Monday, but yesterday about 70 parents, children and activists gathered in front of the U.S. Department of Education to encourage Secretary of Education Arne Duncan to award vouchers to help the students pay for private school.
According to a Washington Times article, the 216 students, who were offered vouchers worth [...]
University of New Castle Professor and Director of the E.G. West Centre, James Tooley is a tireless champion of private education for children in the developing world. In researching his new book, A Beautiful Tree: A Personal Journey Into How The World’s Poorest People are Educating Themselves, Tooley found pockets of communities all over the [...]
Keep Reading →In light of yesterday’s weapon’s test by North Korea, we thought it might be good to draw your attention to some work we’ve discussed previously, by In-Young Kim, a professor at Hallym University in South Korea. Dr. Kim recently spoke on a panel at the Heritage Foundation’s Resource Bank meeting, in addition he published an [...]
Keep Reading →My brother Dan does education policy at the Heritage Foundation (mostly on K-12) and we have chatted from time to time about whether the status quo at American universities will prevail over time — with its high costs and left-biased product line. Scholars like Charles Murray have asserted that the average college student today does [...]
Keep Reading →If you name your political party the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS), it should be pretty clear where you are headed. Unfortunately, this is the path which Bolivia has chosen, as it is now governed by a new constitution that was approved in late January. Although the final version is not as radical as the one [...]
Keep Reading →Stuart Butler is the Washington Times today talking about successes in implementing school vouchers for foster care children, who would benefit from continuity in their school life (and social networks at school) during times when they struggle with changes in their lives at home. It certainly seems like common sense to allow them opportunities to [...]
Keep Reading →July 31st marks the 96th birthday of Milton Friedman, and has become known as Friedman Legacy Day. To honor his memory, and his contributions to freedom and economics, institutes around the United States and the world are hosting celebrations. In the U.S. we understand there will be 50 events in 41 different states and [...]
Keep Reading →National Review Online features an interview with Jeb Bush, conducted by The Heritage Foundation’s Dan Lips. Bush talks about the education reforms implemented during his tenure as governor of Florida, and the founding of the Foundation for Excellence in Education, which he launched upon leaving office in 2007. Bush also‚ citesresearch by the Goldwater Institute‚ [...]
Keep Reading →The proposal of creating an European Super-State under a socialist Constitution has been refused twice, now. Not all European citizens have the right to express their opinion about the integration process though a referendum. But in 2005, French and Dutch had the chance to say No!, and they stopped the ratification of the European Constitution.
This [...]
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