We take it for granted that the federal government has a large role to play in public education, but why? The public has been mostly resistant to large scale projects like common standards, student testing, and school turnarounds. We’ll talk to Neal McCluskey about the potential benefits of localizing public education.
Neal McCluskey is the director of Cato’s Center for Educational Freedom. He is the author of the book Feds in the Classroom: How Big Government Corrupts, Cripples, and Compromises American Education and is co‐editor of Educational Freedom: Remembering Andrew Coulson, Debating His Ideas and Unprofitable Schooling: Examining Causes of, and Fixes for, America’s Broken Ivory Tower. He also contributed a chapter to libertarianism.org’s Visions of Liberty.
