First Evidence of Indoctrination in the Freedom Center's Ethics and Economics of Wealth Creation Course - This article in the Freedom Center’s March 2010 inaugural newsletter says, “Only 72% [of the students in this course] thought that the minimum wage will tend to increase unemployment while 28% believed the statement was false. While it is certainly good that 72% believe that the minimum wage will increase unemployment, the fact that 28% of people still think it has no effect is troubling. More troubling still is the fact that 87% of students believed ‘Unemployment tends to rise in countries that lower their trade barriers.’ Our goal is to increase the proportion of students who respond correctly to these statements.” [emphasis added]

The Freedom Center's Plan to Indoctrinate Students Worldwide - In 2014 the Freedom Center applied for a grant from the Templeton Foundation to help spread their version of PPE (Philosophy, Politics and Economics) into high schools and around the world. This page of the proposal says the goal was to change PPE students’ attitudes toward public policy. [PPE originated at Oxford University, where it teaches multiple points of view on public policy issues. The Freedom Center’s PPE emphasizes one point of view.] This page also lists colleges and universities in the Freedom Center’s PPE network and says this network will change how faculty teach PPE.The Freedom Center expected to reach one-quarter of Arizona’s high school seniors with its high school course each year. [That didn’t happen, thanks to Kochs Off Campus!]

The Freedom Center’s Proposed Metrics for Measuring Its Influence on Students - The proposal to the Templeton Foundation says the Freedom Center expected 60% of college students to begin its PPE course believing wage floors [minimum wage] create prosperity; it hoped less than 50% would believe that by the end of the course. It expected 75% of college students to start the course believing government work programs create prosperity; it hoped less than 60% would believe that at the end of the course. It expected 75% of high school students would believe government officials can be trusted when they start the course, but only 65% would believe that at the end of the course.

Survey for students in Ethics & Economics of Wealth Creation Course With the 'Correct' Answers Highlighted - In 2015, the Freedom Center asked students at the beginning of each of four “pilots” of its Wealth Creation course to mark 26 statements “true” or “false.” Students were asked to repeat the survey at the end of the course. This document lists the 26 questions and indicates the “correct” answer for each. Two pilots were at UArizona, one was at Bowling Green University in Ohio, and the fourth was at Ormond College in Melbourne, Australia.

Results of the Freedom Center's Attempt to Indoctrinate Students - At the end of the four pilots of the Ethics & Economics of Wealth Creation course, the Freedom Center tallied up the results to see how well they had indoctrinated students.