John Hood’s article “Children’s Real Enemy” is recommended as a “FEE Timely Classic” in the Foundation for Economic Education’s (FEE) daily email.  

State-Paid Preschool Takes Recession Hit

?One of
the most drastic expansions of public education in recent American
history unfolded quietly in this decade, as dozens of states added free
pre-kindergarten classes to their traditional kindergarten to high
school offerings. But the recession appears to have stalled the
expansion of state-financed pre-kindergarten programs?.? (New York Times, Wednesday)

Not all the news is bad.

FEE Timely Classic
?Children?s Real Enemy? by John Hood