tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8537995.post8317093451370021942..comments2023-10-29T10:54:58.681-04:00Comments on Vox Baby: Public Education Reform in the Presence of MonopoliesAndrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13514024573333057559noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8537995.post-60302501058572402692008-02-26T02:54:00.000-05:002008-02-26T02:54:00.000-05:00Dear Everybody:I am an educator. My school corpora...Dear Everybody:<BR/><BR/>I am an educator. My school corporation is certainly not the most effective nor the least corrupt. We face problems like all metropolitan school systems.<BR/><BR/>Some of what has been said here is in econo-speak...so I might be missing the point. Nevertheless, I think the gist of the original statement is something like: "get rid of public education (except for the stuffAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8537995.post-64710796162033786462008-02-12T23:13:00.000-05:002008-02-12T23:13:00.000-05:00Tom,You do your job so well that even top-notch ec...Tom,<BR/><BR/>You do your job so well that even top-notch economists cna get snowed by your rhetoric.<BR/><BR/>The only "privatization" of education that has taken place is that of the "education industry." <BR/>They have effectively walled off $500 billion/yr into a politically protected, barely-legalized money laundering scheme saddled with intentionally complex legislation and mandated Extreme Wisdomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04477416791736537181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8537995.post-23309110757431296832007-07-18T17:07:00.000-04:002007-07-18T17:07:00.000-04:00Public Education Reform is on the agenda only beca...Public Education Reform is on the agenda only because of the huge cash flows that business see as a cash cow. Out of that vast cash flow very large executive compensation packages can be obtained. A lot of very smart people have been working for years on how to tap that market and get the rewards. So far no one has come up with the right ideas. When someone does it will happen because the Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8537995.post-16830611537599573622007-07-18T16:56:00.000-04:002007-07-18T16:56:00.000-04:00syferium Sign Me UP!!!syferium <BR/><BR/> Sign Me UP!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8537995.post-80979391171700159722007-07-17T14:27:00.000-04:002007-07-17T14:27:00.000-04:00Someone wrote: "The problem is with the requiremen...Someone wrote: "The problem is with the requirements, not the monopoly." I couldn't agree more. Two of my friends teach high school math and they do it because they care deeply about learning. They're not doing it for the money that's for sure; if only one student has that "light bulb" go off after being introduced to the quadratic equation, it makes the whole thing worthwhile to these guys. God Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8537995.post-85991025465911478422007-07-13T13:53:00.000-04:002007-07-13T13:53:00.000-04:00Ah, yes, what we need is a system whereby every tr...Ah, yes, what we need is a system whereby every tree-hugger in Vermont can send their child to a truly efficient 10-person school that may or may not meet any of the standards (some reasonable, some ridiculous) established by the state. This, of course, would leave only the special education students in the public system, allowing critics to complain about how expensive it is and how poorly the Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07472891144832591202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8537995.post-6358122742767839472007-07-12T00:16:00.000-04:002007-07-12T00:16:00.000-04:00Regarding getting the money "to follow the childre...Regarding getting the money "to follow the children rather than being constrained to be spent only at the government-run schools", to break up the monopoly problem: <BR/><BR/>Sweden has a universal full-voucher school system that's proved both <A HREF="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/3717744.stm" REL="nofollow">popular</A> and <A HREF="http://ideas.repec.org/p/hhs/iuiwop/0578.html" REL="JGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11164150812219689611noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8537995.post-26685576788777095272007-07-11T23:52:00.000-04:002007-07-11T23:52:00.000-04:00A NYC public school teacher makes some observation...A NYC public school teacher makes some observations about the school system <A HREF="http://www.scrivener.net/edu/accountability0.html" REL="nofollow">she taught in</A>.<BR/><BR/>Perhaps there's a problem on both ends with the whole dual monopoly (school board/union) structure?JGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11164150812219689611noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8537995.post-48797684801768914912007-07-11T16:33:00.000-04:002007-07-11T16:33:00.000-04:00I don't think it is a monopoly power of local scho...I don't think it is a monopoly power of local school boards, the unions are national in scope. The unions control the offerings available to local boards. If the local board had the option to outsource to private educational providers, I mean 5 or 6 large firms not available today, the union would become irrelevant. Like the accounting curriculum at Dartmouth is determined by large national Fritzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09551356233624437730noreply@blogger.com