Corey A. DeAngelis
Senior Fellow, Reason Foundation
Corey A. DeAngelis is a senior fellow at Reason Foundation.
DeAngelis is also a senior fellow at the American Culture Project, executive director at Educational Freedom Institute, an adjunct scholar at Cato Institute, and a board member at Liberty Justice Center.
He is the national bestselling author of The Parent Revolution: Rescuing Your Kids from the Radicals Ruining Our Schools (Center Street, 2024).
DeAngelis' research primarily focuses on the effects of school choice programs. He has authored or co-authored over 40 journal articles, book chapters, and reports on education policy. His research has been published in peer-reviewed academic journals such as Social Science Quarterly, School Effectiveness and School Improvement, Educational Review, Educational Research and Evaluation, Journal of School Choice, and the Cato Journal. His work has also been featured in The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, New York Post, The Hill, Washington Examiner, Foundation for Economic Education, EdChoice, and Education Next.
DeAngelis received his Ph.D. in Education Policy from the University of Arkansas. He additionally holds a Bachelor of Business Administration and a Master of Arts in Economics from the University of Texas at San Antonio.
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Rep. Ocasio-Cortez Has a Unique Opportunity To Make School Choice a Non-Partisan Issue
AOC seems to understand the value of public charter schools and could be a true leader by fighting for expanding educational options for everyone.
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Corporations, Politicians Shouldn’t Harm Low-Income and Minority Kids by Pulling Scholarship Funding
The Florida Tax Credit Scholarship Program serves over 100,000 disadvantaged students in the state.
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How Competition From Charter Schools May Change Schools’ Budgeting Decisions
This study's results suggest that school choice competition could improve outcomes for students who remain in traditional public schools by affecting the allocation of scarce education dollars.
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Sen. Warren’s Education Plan Significantly Contradicts Her Immigration Plan
Warren’s logic that families must stay put and fix their own public schools mirrors a common nativist talking point: immigrants should stay put and fix their own countries instead of coming here.
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Updated: The Washington Post Corrects an Inaccurate Claim About Education Spending
Inflation-adjusted, per-pupil education spending has actually increased by at least 36 percent since the 1980s.
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The Democratic Party’s Presidential Candidates Didn’t Practice What the Preach on School Choice
The majority of the front-runners either attended private schools themselves or sent their own children to private schools, yet they’re fighting hard against programs that would grant similar options to the less fortunate.
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Sen. Warren Chose Private School For Her Son, But Aims to Limit School Choice Programs
Sen. Warren’s radically anti-choice education plan would ban for-profit charter schools, end federal funding for new charters and make it more difficult to open them.
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s Own Family Experience Shows the Need for School Choice
In the same year, one of Warren's children went to private school, the other went to public school. One size does not fit all.
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s Education Plan Would Hurt Charter Schools
The presidential candidate calls for more money for government-run schools and more regulations for private and charter schools.
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Charter Schools Get Better Results, With Less Money, Than Government-Run Schools
A new study finds public charter schools are 8 percent to 42 percent more cost-effective than traditional public schools in Texas.
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State Tests Deter Private Schools From Participating in Voucher Programs
We found that the state testing mandate reduced the likelihood that private school leaders were certain to participate by 46 percent.
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How the Most Economically Disadvantaged Families Choose Schools
New research on school choice shows that even the least advantaged find superior schools for their kids and get better results.
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Education Professors Misrepresent School Choice Yet Again
Kids are more than test scores.
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The Flaws In Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf’s Charter School Plan
Fair funding means giving all children the same education dollars regardless of what kind of school works best for them.
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Study Finds School Choice Increases Earnings in Colombia
We should consider all relevant outcomes when evaluating any education policy, especially since families don’t want schools solely focusing on standardized tests.
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In Education, We Should Prioritize Long-Run Outcomes Over Standardized Test Scores
Researchers and journalists are focusing on the effects of education policies on standardized test scores while ignoring more important long-term outcomes such as crime and earnings.
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Evidence Clearly Supports School Choice
Nine rigorous studies link private school choice programs to “student attainment”—graduating from high school and going to college.
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The Limits to Research on the Effectiveness of Unschooling
Most families know much more about their children’s needs than bureaucrats sitting in offices hundreds of miles away.