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Cato's education research is grounded in the understanding that education works best when it is rooted in free decisions. Parents must be able to choose the education they think best for their children, and educators must be able to teach as they see fit. In higher education, those who will reap the benefits of their education should pay with their own money, or funds voluntarily given by others. And early‐childhood education must be the purview of families and providers, not government.

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  • March 29, 2018
    Book Forum
    Speak Freely: Why Universities Must Defend Free Speech
    Featuring the author Keith E. Whittington, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics, Princeton University; with comments by Ilya Somin, Professor of Law, George Mason University; moderated by John Samples, Vice President, Cato Institute.
  • February 1, 2018
    Book Forum
    Islamic Education in the United States
    Featuring Sabith Khan, Assistant Professor, California Lutheran University; Coauthor, Islamic Education in the United States and the Evolution of Muslim Nonprofit Institutions; and Shariq Siddiqui, Executive Director, Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action; Coauthor, Islamic Education in the United States and the Evolution of Muslim Nonprofit Institutions; moderated by Neal McCluskey, Director, Center for Educational Freedom, Cato Institute.
  • December 5, 2017
    Policy Forum
    Campus Discipline under Title IX
    Featuring Emily Yoffe, Contributing Editor, the Atlantic; with comments by Ruth Marcus, Editorial Writer and Columnist, the Washington Post; moderated by Walter Olson, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute.
  • July 26, 2017
    Policy Forum
    School Choice and Democracy: Friends or Foes?
    Featuring Richard D. Kahlenberg, Senior Fellow, The Century Foundation; Max Eden, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute; and Corey A. DeAngelis, Policy Analyst, Center for Educational Freedom, Cato Institute, and Distinguished Doctoral Fellow in Education Policy, Department of Education Reform, University of Arkansas; moderated by Neal McCluskey, Director, Center for Educational Freedom, Cato Institute.
  • June 29, 2017
    Policy Forum
    Should Every School Serve Everyone?
    Featuring Lindsey Burke, Director, Center for Education Policy, and Will Skillman Fellow in Education in the Institute for Family, Community, and Opportunity, Heritage Foundation; A. D. Motzen, National Director of State Relations, Agudath Israel of America; Joe McTighe, Executive Director, Council for American Private Education; facilitated by Neal McCluskey, Director, Center for Educational Freedom, Cato Institute.
  • May 15, 2017
    Policy Forum
    Teaching Kids Controversy: Education, Pluralism, and Hot Topics
    Featuring Jonathan Zimmerman, Professor of History of Education, University of Pennsylvania and Coauthor of the new book, The Case for Contention: Teaching Controversial Issues in American Schools; Ashley Rogers Berner, Deputy Director of the Institute for Education Policy, Johns Hopkins University, and Author, No One Way to School: Pluralism and American Public Education; Elizabeth Anderson Worden, Associate Professor, School of Education, American University, and Author, National Identity and Educational Reform: Contested Classrooms; Neal McCluskey, Director, Center for Educational Freedom and Curator, Cato’s Public Schooling Battle Map, Cato Institute; moderated by Valerie Strauss, Education Reporter, Washington Post
  • April 26, 2017
    Policy Forum
    End the ED: Time to Dissolve the U.S. Department of Education?
    Opening remarks by Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY); featuring Vicki E. Alger, Research Fellow, Independent Institute and Author, Failure: The Federal Misedukation of America’s Children; Catherine Brown, Vice President, Education Policy, Center for American Progress; Neal McCluskey, Director, Center for Educational Freedom, Cato Institute; moderated by Lauren Camera, Education Reporter, U.S. News & World Report.
  • November 16, 2016
    Policy Forum
    For-Profit Colleges: Awful or Abused?
    Featuring Robert Shireman, Senior Fellow, Century Foundation; Richard Vedder, Director, Center for College Affordability and Productivity; Barmak Nassirian, Director of Federal Relations and Policy Analysis, American Association of State Colleges and Universities; Eric Juhlin, CEO, Center for Excellence in Higher Education; Ben Miller, Senior Director, Postsecondary Education, Center for American Progress; and Neal McCluskey, Director, Center for Educational Freedom, Cato Institute; moderated by Kimberly Hefling, Senior Education Writer, Politico.
  • June 14, 2016
    Conference
    Protecting Religious Liberty
    Throughout our history, Americans have been a highly religious people. Indeed, many of the original colonists came to the New World specifically to escape religious persecution. And though somewhat less devout than we once were, the United States still leads the developed world in religiosity.
  • March 31, 2016
    Book Forum
    100 Years of Democracy and Education: A Critical Examination
    Featuring Henry T. Edmondson III, Carl Vinson Professor of Political Science and Public Administration, Georgia College, and author of John Dewey and the Decline of American Education; Leo Casey, Executive Director, Albert Shanker Institute; and Neal McCluskey, Director, Center for Educational Freedom, Cato Institute; moderated by Robert Pondiscio, Senior Fellow and Vice President for External Affairs, Thomas B. Fordham Institute.
  • March 4, 2016
    Policy Forum
    School Choice Regulation: Friend or Foe?
    Featuring Patrick J. Wolf, Professor and 21st Century Chair in School Choice, University of Arkansas; Douglas N. Harris, Director, Education Research Alliance for New Orleans; University Endowed Chair in Public Education, Tulane University; Michael J. Petrilli, President, Thomas B. Fordham Institute; and Jason Bedrick, Policy Analyst, Center for Educational Freedom, Cato Institute; moderated by Neal McCluskey, Director, Center for Educational Freedom, Cato Institute.
  • February 16, 2016
    Policy Forum
    From “No Child” to “Every Student”: How Big a Change?
    Featuring Gerard Robinson, Resident Fellow, Education Policy Studies, American Enterprise Institute; David Cleary, Chief of Staff, Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN), Majority Staff Director for the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee; Lindsey Burke, Will Skillman Fellow in Education Policy, Heritage Foundation; and Neal McCluskey, Director, Center for Educational Freedom, Cato Institute; moderated by Michael Hansen, Senior Fellow, Brown Center on Education Policy Governance Studies, Brookings Institution.
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