So you think that the sole purpose of education is to churn out little mba clones rather than educated citizens.
As for the metrics of what makes schools good or bad, there is substantial agreement - performance on educational measures, you use a battery of standardized tests of educational performance. They have a fairly good correlation with later performance in university and SES. larry On 10/6/05, Gruss Gott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Cameron wrote: > > Exactly why using a free market system would work. Who knows what > > metrics make a school "good" or "bad". > > Exactly. The problems always seem to creep in when the gov't messes > about with the market. That's not to say there aren't cases when it > should; but those cases are well defined: the six types of market > failure. > > In this case you could have a rural school with little or no > competition. The government may have to provide some additional > incentive for a competing school. > > Further there are standards that could be set. For me it would be the > ability to conduct business in modern society which would mean > finance, and then there's computer skills, etc. > > I suppose you'd bake this all into the testing process? > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:176036 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
