As a recent AP story helpfully points out, big government, dirigist Sweden has had a private school choice program since the early 1990s, and parents are loving it. Private school enrollment is up from one percent to ten percent of total enrollment, and still climbing.

Interestingly, Sweden’s education system was described today in a separate news story as “socialist.” Now I’m the first to acknowledge that Sweden’s system is far from a completely free market (see the AP story above), but it is certainly less socialist than our own public school systems in the United States, which automatically assign most kids to government-run institutions.

So if reporters think the Swedish system is socialist, why don’t they describe ours in the same way?