Posts by Vicki Alger | The Beacon

Posts by Vicki Alger

Vicki E, Alger is a Research Fellow at the Independent Institute and Senior Fellow and Director of the Women for School Choice Project at the Independent Women’s Forum. She is the author of the Independent book, Failure: The Federal Misedukation of America’s Children.
Full Biography and Recent Publications

What Memorial Day Should Mean

Saturday, May 23, 2015

Parental Choice Could Help Curb Willful Defiance in School

Saturday, May 23, 2015

Education Savings Accounts Challenge Common Core’s One-Size-Fits-All Schooling

Friday, April 3, 2015

Government Union Boss Apparently Equates Valuing Work with Taxpayer Shakedowns

Friday, April 3, 2015

Milton Friedman on “Free” College

Thursday, January 29, 2015

National School Choice Week Starts Today!

Sunday, January 25, 2015

Common Core Boosters Trying to Scare States into Keeping National Standards

Friday, January 2, 2015

Constitutional Federalism Beats Feds’ Bribery of the States

Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Student Debt and Default Explode While U.S. Department of Education Fiddles

Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Reauthorized Child Care Block Grant: Another Brick in the Wall for Big Government

Friday, December 5, 2014

Raising Arizona: Voters Agree with Incoming Superintendent Diane Douglas that Parents, Not the State, Are Primary in Education

Wednesday, December 3, 2014

Students Won’t Be Collateral Damage in California Big Spenders’ Showdown

Saturday, November 22, 2014

NYC’s Success Academy Charter Schools Are Beating the Odds . . . and Powerful Unions

Friday, November 14, 2014

Obama’s Undisciplined School Discipline Reforms

Thursday, November 13, 2014

Distorted Education Attack Ads Hide the Facts

Monday, October 27, 2014

Georgia’s Ivory Tower Behavior Modification-istas

Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Coming Soon to California: Teachers’ Right to Work?

Monday, September 22, 2014

Common Core Called the “Obamacare of Education”

Saturday, September 20, 2014

Gaming Gainful Employment

Friday, September 19, 2014

Obama’s Latest Hostile Takeover Target: Private Career Colleges

Friday, September 12, 2014

Oklahoma: Losing Federal Waiver, Winning Back Rightful Control over Education

Friday, August 29, 2014

A Riverside High School Thinks Dumpster Diving is a Needed Life Skill for Special Education Students

Thursday, August 28, 2014

Competing for Students, Not Federal Funding, Is Still the Best Preschool Policy

Thursday, August 28, 2014

Chicago Teachers Union Boss and Classic Champagne Socialism

Saturday, August 23, 2014

Parental Choice, Not Common Core, Is the Key to Academic Accountability

Saturday, August 23, 2014

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