Don’t Purchase Online Before You Try – Problems In Public Education Book Review
Instead, I argued, it would be far more efficient to let private and parochial schools compete for students whose parents were free to enroll their child in any school they could afford. The tax savings could go to provide an education for those who could not afford it. Using test scores alone to judge which schools are improving or slipping is dangerous. Likewise it is impossible to identify effective teachers by their students’ performance on a set of tests that emphasize reading and math techniques over content and understanding. Some teachers are just more effective, she holds, and it is these teachers she wishes to promote. All the others she fires, or tries to fire.
