Caveat Emptor Award

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This year's grand prize is given to the Friedman Foundation for its impressive body of shoddy work, artistically combining exaggeration, misleading statements, skewed use of research, and unsupported conclusions. Perhaps the most worthy of these is a September 2007 Friedman handbook entitled, The ABC’s of School Choice. It purported to summarize the research on several forms of choice programs. Our reviewer concluded, "Evidence -- particularly on the issue of achievement -- is consistently abused in this report, both by misrepresenting individual studies (including those by voucher advocates) and misrepresenting the general body of research on choice."