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Tuesday, October 15. 2013

The State’s Education Monopoly Increases Prices and Destroys Choice

From the article by Ron Paul:



The goal of academic regulation is to limit the supply of schools that compete against public schools. This is done in the name of guaranteeing the educational quality of the school, thereby protecting the students. Yet the academic performance of the public schools continues to decline, and has done so since the early 1960s. The scores on the SAT and ACT exams continue to fall. The high point was in the early 1960s. So, regulation has not been successful in guaranteeing the quality of education. But it has been quite successful in restricting entry into the field of education.


Posted by The Barrister in Education, Our Essays at 13:16 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0)

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More people taking the tests. It covers all the variance. All of it.

Schools were far worse in the 1960's than they are now. Not that there aren't distressing wastes of time and ridiculous teachings now, but so were there then, and worse.

The Decline of Schools is the conservative version of AGW. It is believed because it is desired, and shoddy evidence is put forward in support.
#1 Assistant VIllage Idiot (Link) on 2013-10-15 14:17 (Reply)
"Yet the academic performance of the public schools continues to decline". But that ony justifies more academic regulation and government interference don'tcha know.
#2 GoneWithTheWind on 2013-10-15 17:37 (Reply)
Amen. Time to review John Gotto's Weapons of Miseducation or Ivan Illitch's deSchooling.
#3 Becky on 2013-10-15 20:07 (Reply)

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