Rick Lowe
When a process in the market fails to provide the results people want, they scream for government intervention, yet when a government service fails, people call for more government. Oh, we just need to tweak public education a bit and we'll get better results for our kids, they say.
Well guess what? We've been tweaking public education here for decades and the results show little to no improvement.
And it's not because the Minister doesn't care or the Opposition doesn't care. Nor is it only becvause of parents. It's also because of a failure of the the workers and administrators in the public educational system.
It's not rocket science, yet for some reason we've been conditioned over the years think there are no market solutions for public education (even thought the results in the private sector are plain to see.
But I digress.
Andrew Coulson at the Cato Institute recently posted an article about "Jay Greene's Great Ne Manifesto" for public education.
"Education scholar Jay Greene has a great new pamphlet called Why America Needs School Choice. Concise and very readable, it does a fine job of introducing the general public to the arguments and evidence in favor of market forces in education. In the process, it debunks six “canards” put forward by defenders of the status quo school monopoly."
To read the rest just click here…
The book by Greene, Why America Needs School Choice is on my to buy list.
