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Neal McCluskey joins us for a conversation about public education in America. How did it begin? And why doesn't it work as well as we want it to?
Neal McCluskey joins us this week for a discussion about public education in America. He shares its history, from the "Old Deluder Satan Law" of 1647 in the Massachusetts Bay Colony to the current debate over policies like No Child Left Behind and the Common Core. He also talks about public schooling's inherent pitfalls and shares different proposals for infusing school choice into the current system.
What's wrong with public education? Why doesn't it work as well as we'd like? Why can't we just solve public schools' problems with increased funding?
Show Notes and Further Reading
Neal McCluskey, Feds in the Classroom: How Big Government Corrupts, Cripples, and Compromises American Education (book)
Neal McCluskey was the director of Cato’s Center for Educational Freedom. He is the author of two books, The Fractured Schoolhouse: Reexamining Education for a Free, Equal, and Harmonious Society and Feds in the Classroom: How Big Government Corrupts, Cripples, and Compromises American Education. He is coeditor of several volumes, including Fighting for the Freedom to Learn: Examining America’s Centuries-Old School Choice Movement and School Choice Myths: Setting the Record Straight on Education Freedom. McCluskey also maintained Cato’s Public Schooling Battle Map, an interactive database of values and identity‐based conflicts in public schools.