{"id":3121,"date":"2008-11-05T13:14:17","date_gmt":"2008-11-05T13:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/11\/05\/its-all-about-timing\/"},"modified":"2008-11-05T13:14:17","modified_gmt":"2008-11-05T13:14:17","slug":"its-all-about-timing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/11\/05\/its-all-about-timing\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s All About Timing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Slate<\/cite> (who, by the way, drive me up the freaking wall with their habit of giving each story about six different headlines, depending on where the link is) has hit the ground running with a panel of distinguished right-wing types discussing what the Republicans should do now<\/a>. Jim Manzi gets the ball rolling with an idea that’s sure to be a winner: market-based education reform.<\/p>\n

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No amount of money or number of “programs” will create anything more than marginal improvements, because public schools are organized to serve teachers and administrators rather than students and families. We need, at least initially, competition for students among public schools in which funding moves with students and in which schools are far freer to change how they operate. As we have seen in the private economy, only markets will force the unpleasant restructuring necessary to unleash potential.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, that’s a great plan.<\/p>\n

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Whatever you may think of school vouchers as an educational cure-all– personally, I thought they were a terrible idea even before the financial markets went pear-shaped, mostly because I fear exactly the sort of thing that made the financial markets go blooey– I can’t believe anybody would think this was a winning pitch at the current moment. After watching the magic power of the financial markets make a colossal mess of… pretty much everything, I suspect that market-based “reform” of just about anything is going to be a hard sell for a few years.<\/p>\n

Of course, I wouldn’t be all that upset to see the GOP embrace electoral death for a couple more cycles, so, by all means, pin everything on vouchers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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