The Heartland Institute

This model legislation for education tax credits from the Cato Institute aims to provide maximum freedom for parents, children, schools, and taxpayers to support and attend the schools they choose. It allows businesses and individuals to claim a tax credit for donations made to a private school scholarship-granting organization ...

Examples from Chile demonstrate that the best way to increase the prevalence of successful schools and education methods is to create incentives for schools to scale up themselves, instead of forcing their innovations on other schools and districts through government mandates, this Cato Institute study concludes. Students at larger ...

No correlation exists between a charter school receiving private funding and its later performance after controlling for external factors, writes Andrew Coulson in an analysis of California charter schools. Thus philanthropists have shown no ability to choose and replicate the best charter schools, instead repeatedly wasting their ...

The federal government does have, and should use, authority to enforce equal protection under the law against violence and harassment, testifies Neal McCluskey of the Cato Institute before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, but has in recent years interpreted this authority so broadly it has begun to infringe upon equal protection ...

The political momentum behind state-level preschool programs is tremendous, but existing proposals are often flawed and expensive. Preschool can provide small but statistically significant short-term gains for low-income children; however, these gains usually fade quickly in later grades. There is little evidence to support the belief ...