EmailDavid W. Kirkpatrick
Senior Fellow in Education Policy
David W. Kirkpatrick is a Senior Education Fellow with The Buckeye Institute and the U.S. Freedom Foundation. Kirkpatrick has previously served as President of the Pennsylvania State Education Association; Editorial Board Member of the Texas Education Review; Director of Policy and Legislation for the Association of Pennsylvania State Colleges and University Faculties; multiple positions with National Education Association (NEA) and American Federation of Teachers (AFT) affiliates; Distinguished Fellow of the Blum Center at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Senior Fellow for Teacher Choice at the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution in Arlington, Virginia; and Editor-in-Chief for Insider Update, the weekly internet service of School Reformers.Com; among other achievements. He is a life member of the NEA and the Pennsylvania State Education Association.
He is a former public high school history teacher and social studies department chairman, and was a teaching fellow at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Kirkpatrick holds a B.S. in Education from the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (North Adams State College), an M.A. in History from Lehigh University, and was a William Robertson Coe Fellow at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California.
He has published numerous books and articles, including Choice in Schooling, Loyola University Press, 1990.
All articles by David Kirkpatrick
Maintaining the Status Quo in Education
August 10th, 2009 Center for Liberty in Learning ViewpointAcademic Achievement - No Excuses Please
March 9th, 2009 Center for Liberty in Learning ViewpointSt. Johnsbury Academy
January 26th, 2009 Center for Liberty in Learning ViewpointAlternative Schooling Emerges
January 12th, 2009 Center for Liberty in Learning ViewpointTeacher Unions Block Reforms
December 29th, 2008 Center for Liberty in Learning ViewpointThe Difficulty of School Reform
September 8th, 2008 Center for Liberty in Learning ViewpointDeschooling
August 18th, 2008 Center for Liberty in Learning ViewpointAre Children "Creatures of the State?"
July 21st, 2008 Center for Liberty in Learning ViewpointStill A Nation at Risk?
June 2nd, 2008 Center for Liberty in Learning ViewpointWhat Are "Public" Schools?
May 19th, 2008 Center for Liberty in Learning ViewpointSchool Reform Predictions: Easier Said Than Done
April 7th, 2008 Center for Liberty in Learning ViewpointSchool Choice and "Creative Destruction"
March 17th, 2008 Center for Liberty in Learning ViewpointDoes government funding equal government strings?
November 5th, 2007 Center for Liberty in Learning ViewpointPre-K Schooling: An Irresistible Force?
July 26th, 2007 Center for Liberty in Learning ViewpointSchool Legal Issues: Footnotes and Sidelights
July 19th, 2007 Center for Liberty in Learning ViewpointClass Size: Where Belief Trumps Reality
June 21st, 2007 Center for Liberty in Learning ViewpointBlaming the Student
June 8th, 2007 Center for Liberty in Learning ViewpointOhio's Public Schools and Public Opinion
June 7th, 2007 Center for Liberty in Learning ViewpointSchool Funding as a Distraction
May 24th, 2007 Center for Liberty in Learning ViewpointBig Schools, An Ongoing Problem
May 18th, 2007 Center for Liberty in Learning ViewpointTeacher Freedom: A Result of School Choice?
May 3rd, 2007 Center for Liberty in Learning ViewpointTeacher Unions: Consistency is Not Their Strong Point
April 19th, 2007 Center for Liberty in Learning ViewpointSchool Funding: Adequate versus Equitable
September 27th, 2006 Center for Liberty in Learning ViewpointCharter Schools vs. Teacher Unions: Irresistible Force vs. Immovable Object?
September 14th, 2006 Center for Liberty in Learning ViewpointViewpoint: Teacher Salaries - More Attention Needed to Specifics
June 22nd, 2006 Center for Liberty in Learning ViewpointViewpoint: Teacher Certification Doesn't Guarantee Competency
June 15th, 2006 Center for Liberty in Learning ViewpointViewpoint: Organizing Charter Schools, A Challenge to Unions
June 5th, 2006 Center for Liberty in Learning ViewpointViewpoint: Effective Schooling
March 9th, 2006 Center for Liberty in Learning ViewpointViewpoint: Charter Schools: An Irresistible Force?
January 19th, 2006 Center for Liberty in Learning ViewpointViewpoint: Playing Educational Catch - 22
September 23rd, 2005 Center for Liberty in Learning ViewpointViewpoint: School Choice, Democrats and Teacher Unions
July 28th, 2005 Center for Liberty in Learning ViewpointViewpoint: Public and Private Schools
July 21st, 2005 Center for Liberty in Learning ViewpointViewpoint: Chester-Upland's Troubled Schools
July 11th, 2005 Center for Liberty in Learning ViewpointViewpoint: School Finance, Hype Versus History
June 30th, 2005 Center for Liberty in Learning ViewpointViewpoint: Public Schooling's Future
June 21st, 2005 Center for Liberty in Learning ViewpointWhy Don't Teachers Get Paid Like Doctors?
July 21st, 2004 Education DocumentSchool Choice Precedents
July 21st, 2004 Education DocumentTeacher Unions Continue Attack on Charter Schools
July 4th, 2004 Education DocumentSchool Violence. Why? And What to Do?
July 4th, 2004 Education DocumentWhy Don't Teachers Get Paid Like Doctors?
June 21st, 2004 Education DocumentTeacher Unions Continue Attack on Charter Schools
June 4th, 2004 Education DocumentSchool Violence. Why? And What to Do?
June 4th, 2004 Education DocumentMany Teachers Favor Charter Schools Although Their Unions Don't
May 20th, 2004 Education DocumentTuition Vouchers. An Old Story
May 7th, 2004 Education DocumentGoogling the 'Net for School Information
April 29th, 2004 Education DocumentUniversal Tuition Tax Credits
April 14th, 2004 Education DocumentSmall Schools Achieve Better Results
March 25th, 2004 Education DocumentEducation Rhetoric: The Intemperate Pot, and the Hypocritical Kettle
March 5th, 2004 Education DocumentDouble Standards in School Practices
February 27th, 2004 Education DocumentDoes Government Funding Equal Government Control?
February 20th, 2004 Education DocumentCharter Schools: Missed Opportunity for School Boards?
February 13th, 2004 Education Document"More" Will Never Be Enough!
January 30th, 2004 Education DocumentSchool Choice Is A Right, No Bashing Necessary
January 30th, 2004 Education DocumentSchool Size - Bigger Is Not Better
January 14th, 2004 Education DocumentNational Education Freedom Day
May 4th, 2003 Education DocumentLiteracy: Then and Now
June 4th, 2002 Education DocumentTeachers and School Choice
June 4th, 2002 Education Document
