2007
The High Cost of Failing to Reform Public Education (Think Tank Review)
School Choice by the Numbers: The Fiscal Effect of School Choice Programs 1990 – 2006 (Think Tank Review)
The ABC's of School Choice (Think Tank Review)
Monopoly Versus Markets: The Empirical Evidence on Private Schools and School Choice (Think Tank Review)
School Choice by the Numbers: The Fiscal Effect of School Choice Programs 1990 – 2006 (Think Tank Review)
The ABC's of School Choice (Think Tank Review)
Monopoly Versus Markets: The Empirical Evidence on Private Schools and School Choice (Think Tank Review)
Think Tank:
The Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice, Milton & Rose D. Friedman Foundation, The Milton and Rose Friedman Foundation, Center on Education Policy and the Milton & Rose D. Friedman Foundation
This year's grand prize is given to the Friedman Foundation for its impressive body of shoddy work, artistically combining exaggeration, misleading statements, skewed use of research, and unsupported conclusions. Perhaps the most worthy of these is a September 2007 Friedman handbook entitled, The ABC’s of School Choice. It purported to summarize the research on several forms of choice programs. Our reviewer concluded, "Evidence -- particularly on the issue of achievement -- is consistently abused in this report, both by misrepresenting individual studies (including those by voucher advocates) and misrepresenting the general body of research on choice."