Sparking the evolution of education choice
Public education has historically been a poorly managed, underperforming market. The pandemic is driving changes that could, over time, lead to market improvements that will benefit families, students, educators and the public. In effective and efficient markets, consumers control their purchasing power, monopolies do not exist, the barriers to entry[Read More…]
Markets are like gravity. They are everywhere. Markets are where supply meets demand. They are how we access the things we need and want, including food, clothing, housing, friends, media, health care, romantic partners, entertainment, and education. Even those needing kidney transplants are dependent on well-designed markets. Public education also[Read More…]
The American Enterprise Institute is out today with a paper on improving the school choice marketplace. The basic idea is that for choice to truly drive improvements in the education system, market forces need a chance to work. For that to happen, parents need to be able to select schools[Read More…]
For the past two decades, hundreds of thousands of mostly disadvantaged students have enrolled in private school choice programs, usually seeing some improvement in their academic outcomes while saving taxpayers money. But the programs have yet to create the kind of systemic transformation sought by proponents of market-based education reform. As Michael[Read More…]
Words such as voucher, privatization, profit and corporation are often used as weapons by individuals and groups who oppose parental empowerment and school choice. Using words as weapons is especially common during periods of significant social change – we all do it – but the practice undermines civic discourse and[Read More…]
