jim rozen wrote:...
Malcolm Kirkpatrick says...
"If the government would make up its mind to require for every child a
good education, it might save itself the trouble of providing one. It
might leave to parents to obtain the education where and how they
pleased, and content itself with helping to pay the school fees of the
poorer classes of children, and defraying the entire school expense of
those who have no one else to pay for them." -- J.S. Mill, On Liberty
You're quoting "On Liberty" to *prove* that vouchers work,
right now?
MK. No. I quoted Lassibile and Gomez:
MK. Gerard Lassibile and Lucia Navarro Gomez, ["Organization and
Efficiency of Educational Systems: some empirical findings", pg. 16,
"Comparative Education", Vol. 36 #1, Feb 2000]. "Furthermore, the
regression results indicate that countries where private education is
more widespread perform significantly better than countries where it
is more limited. The result showing the private sector to be more
efficient is similar to those found in other contexts with individual
data (see, for example, Psucharopoulos, 1987; Jiminez, et. al, 1991).
This finding should convince countries to reconsider policies that
reduce the role of the private sector in the field of education".
Ha ha. No, I mean an actual US state that has installed
a voucher plan, and demonstrable evidence that education
is a) better and b) cheaper.
MK. The questions keep changing. School vouchers work (Lassibile and
Gomez). Competition between school districts improves performance (my
own work, but anyone can replicate it with NCES statistics). See also
the work on district size of Harvard economist Caroline Hoxby.
Take care. Homeschool if you can.
http://www.rru.com/~meo/hs.minski.html (One page. Marvin Minsky
comment on school. Please read this.)
http://www.schoolchoices.org (Massive site. Useful links).
http://www.friedmanfoundation.org/index.html
http://www.fraserinstitute.ca/shared...sNav=pb&id=289
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/egwest/
http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=11606 (School Reform News
on Sweden's school voucher policy)
http://www.nlpc.org