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David 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.

Recent articles by David Kirkpatrick

• Maintaining the Status Quo in Education
  August 10th, 2009   Center for Liberty in Learning Viewpoint

• Academic Achievement - No Excuses Please
  March 9th, 2009   Center for Liberty in Learning Viewpoint

• St. Johnsbury Academy
  January 26th, 2009   Center for Liberty in Learning Viewpoint

• Alternative Schooling Emerges
  January 12th, 2009   Center for Liberty in Learning Viewpoint

• Teacher Unions Block Reforms
  December 29th, 2008   Center for Liberty in Learning Viewpoint

• The Difficulty of School Reform
  September 8th, 2008   Center for Liberty in Learning Viewpoint

• Deschooling
  August 18th, 2008   Center for Liberty in Learning Viewpoint

• Are Children "Creatures of the State?"
  July 21st, 2008   Center for Liberty in Learning Viewpoint

• Still A Nation at Risk?
  June 2nd, 2008   Center for Liberty in Learning Viewpoint

• What Are "Public" Schools?
  May 19th, 2008   Center for Liberty in Learning Viewpoint

• School Reform Predictions: Easier Said Than Done
  April 7th, 2008   Center for Liberty in Learning Viewpoint

• School Choice and "Creative Destruction"
  March 17th, 2008   Center for Liberty in Learning Viewpoint

• Does government funding equal government strings?
  November 5th, 2007   Center for Liberty in Learning Viewpoint

• Pre-K Schooling: An Irresistible Force?
  July 26th, 2007   Center for Liberty in Learning Viewpoint

• School Legal Issues: Footnotes and Sidelights
  July 19th, 2007   Center for Liberty in Learning Viewpoint