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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

• School Reform Predictions: Easier Said Than Done
  April 7th, 2008   Education Viewpoint

• School Choice and "Creative Destruction"
  March 17th, 2008   Education Viewpoint

• Does government funding equal government strings?
  November 5th, 2007   Education Viewpoint

• Pre-K Schooling: An Irresistible Force?
  July 26th, 2007   Education Viewpoint

• School Legal Issues: Footnotes and Sidelights
  July 19th, 2007   Education Viewpoint

• Class Size: Where Belief Trumps Reality
  June 21st, 2007   Education Viewpoint

• Blaming the Student
  June 8th, 2007   Education Viewpoint

• Ohio’s Public Schools and Public Opinion
  June 7th, 2007   Education Viewpoint

• School Funding as a Distraction
  May 24th, 2007   Education Viewpoint

• Big Schools, An Ongoing Problem
  May 18th, 2007   Education Viewpoint

• Teacher Freedom: A Result of School Choice?
  May 3rd, 2007   Education Viewpoint

• Teacher Unions: Consistency is Not Their Strong Point
  April 19th, 2007   Education Viewpoint

• School Funding: Adequate versus Equitable
  September 27th, 2006   Education Viewpoint

• Charter Schools vs. Teacher Unions: Irresistible Force vs. Immovable Object?
  September 14th, 2006   Education Viewpoint

• Viewpoint: Teacher Salaries - More Attention Needed to Specifics
  June 22nd, 2006   Education Viewpoint