The Heartland Institute: Free Market Solutions

PolicyBot

PolicyBot is a search engine and database containing more than 24,000 studies and commentaries from more than 350 think tanks and advocacy groups. It’s free, fast, and comprehensive.

If you are conducting research on a particular topic, click on the plus (+) sign next to the topic in the list in the left-hand column of this page, then click on a subtopic. Titles, authors, publication date, reviews, and links to complete text will display for the 10 most-recent documents addressing that subtopic. Click on 2, 3, 4, etc. to see more documents.

If you are looking for an essay or report from a particular author or publisher, enter that information in the appropriate boxes below and then hit “search.” The search boxes can also be used to search by topic and subtopic. Problems or questions? Send an email to think@heartland.org.

If you come across what appears to be a “missing” or “empty” PolicyBot document, please let us know! Email us the URL or title of the document you’re trying to find, and we’ll get it fixed for you within minutes.

Search

Criteria

Keyword:
Author:
Publisher:
Added Since:
Document Number:
Topic:
Subtopic:

Results

Sort By: Date

109 article(s) found. Displaying article(s) 1 - 10.

1 2 3 4 5 ››

Education Vouchers Are Cost Effective and Desired

Brian Costin

The Heartland Institute

It’s disappointing to see that Louisiana’s voucher program is already being threatened with elimination after only one full school year (“read more)

School Vouchers Are a Cost-Saver for Taxpayers

James VonderHaar

The Heartland Institute

The evidence is in: If your goal is efficiency and saving tax dollars, K-12 education voucher programs are an astounding success.Florida’s voucher ... (read more)

Ohio Autism Voucher Program Turns Five

Michael Coulter

School Reform News / The Heartland Institute / November 01, 2008

At the end of the 2007-08 school year, Ohio’s autism voucher program completed its fifth year of delivering school choice for parents of autistic ... (read more)

Mainstream Media Misleads Readers on School Choice Study

Robert Holland

School Reform News / The Heartland Institute / January 01, 2008

A report titled “Fixing Milwaukee Public Schools: The Limits of Parent-Driven Reform,” released by the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute (WPRI) on October ... (read more)

School Choice Still Popular

Karla Dial

School Reform News / The Heartland Institute / January 01, 2008

Despite the defeats in referenda, school choice advocates point to the movement’s enduring popularity with voters. Over the past five years, more school ... (read more)

Study: Competition Brings Success

Bailey Quinonez

School Reform News / The Heartland Institute / January 01, 2008

Competition fostered by a free market is good for education, according to a new study by the Milton & Rose D. Friedman Foundation. “Monopoly versus Markets: ... (read more)

School Choice by the Numbers: The Fiscal Effect of School Choice Programs, 1990-2006

Susan L. Aud, Ph.D.

School Choice ISSUES in Depth / Milton and Rose D. Friedman Foundation / April 01, 2007

School choice programs, which allow students to attend the public or private school of their choice using public funds, have taken root in the U.S. and ... (read more)

The Dollars and Sense of School Choice

Mary F. Yoder & Jared M. Walczak

Policy Brief / The Heartland Institute / July 01, 2007

Every year, most Pennsylvania homeowners receive larger property tax bills due to increases in public school spending. In the nine school years from 1997 ... (read more)

National Voucher Plans in Chile and Sweden: Did Privatization Reforms Make for Better Education?

Martin Carnoy

Comparative Education Review / Comparative and International Education Society / August 01, 1998

One of the main purposes of the Swedish voucher reform was to increase competition among schools, raising their cost-effectiveness and making public schools ... (read more)

Privatization and Vouchers in Colombia and Chile

Alberto Arenas

International Review of Education / Kluwer Academic Publishers / July 01, 2004

The voucher model of financing schooling is becoming increasingly common throughout Latin America, with at least 12 countries using vouchers or voucher-like ... (read more)