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The Dismal State of Public Education |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / SPECIAL REPORT |
| Author: Allyson Tucker |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 10/1/1994 |
| Size: 2,723 Words, 17,066 Characters |
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The education establishment claims that the answer to America's public education crisis is more money, more bureaucracy, more regulation, and greater federal intrusion. The data overwhelmingly suggest, however, that America's education crisis can be solved only by adopting structural reforms that ensure greater school choices for parents and local control and school autonomy for teachers and principals.
These reforms would change the system's fundamental incentives by replacing today's government monopoly, which is responsive to union bureaucrats, with a competitive system controlled by parents. The result would be increased options for parents and students, greatly improved school performance and student achievement, and a vastly improved working environment for teachers and princip...
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...the world (i.e., Australia, Belgium, Canada, Chile, France, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, and even the former Soviet Union among others) that have opened up their education system to competition through school choice.
William F. Lauber is assistant editor of Business/Education Insider, a publication of the Center for Education Policy at the Heritage Foundation.
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