>John Stossel : Why our kids deserve a free market in education
John Stossel | September 22, 2011
School spending has doubled over the past 30 years. Yet what do we get? More buildings and more assistant principals—but student learning? No improvement. If you graph the numbers, the spending line slopes steeply, while the lines for reading, math, and science scores are as flat as a dead man’s EKG.
Why no improvement? Because K-12 education is a government monopoly, and monopolies don’t improve.
And yet I’m happy to announce some good news: Cool things are starting to happen in classrooms.
I was surprised to meet kids who said they like school. What? I found school boring. How can it be that these fourth-graders tell me that they look forward to going to school and that math is “rockin’ awesome”?