Snake Posted January 1, 2017 Share Posted January 1, 2017 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
washedupmxer Posted January 1, 2017 Share Posted January 1, 2017 "trump destroys education" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlos Danger Posted January 1, 2017 Share Posted January 1, 2017 "Trump beats children" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Momorider Posted January 1, 2017 Share Posted January 1, 2017 3 minutes ago, Carlos Danger said: "Trump eats children" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zambroski Posted January 1, 2017 Share Posted January 1, 2017 Don't know what the headline is but I bet it's got something to do with defending the worthless, incompetent teachers unions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snake Posted January 1, 2017 Author Share Posted January 1, 2017 Free Market for Education? Economists Generally Don’t Buy It The odds are good that privatizing education will be part of the agenda for President-elect Donald J. Trump’s administration. The Republican platform calls for increasing the role of banks in giving out student loans. And Mr. Trump and the platform advocate an expansion of both vouchers, which enable students to attend the private school of their choice with government funds, and charter schools. In addition, Betsy DeVos, Mr. Trump’s nominee for education secretary, has supported legislation that would establish vouchers in Michigan, as well as the rapid expansion of the state’s charter school sector. You might think that most economists agree with this overall approach, because economists generally like free markets. For example, over 90 percent of the members of the University of Chicago’s panel of leading economists thought that ride-hailing services like Uber and Lyft made consumers better off by providing competition for the highly regulated taxi industry. But economists are far less optimistic about what an unfettered market can achieve in education. Only a third of economists on the Chicago panel agreed that students would be better off if they all had access to vouchers to use at any private (or public) school of their choice. While economists are trained about the value of free markets, they are also trained to spot when markets can’t work alone and government intervention is required. http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/12/30/upshot/free-market-for-education-economists-generally-dont-buy-it.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zambroski Posted January 1, 2017 Share Posted January 1, 2017 2 minutes ago, Snake said: Free Market for Education? Economists Generally Don’t Buy It The odds are good that privatizing education will be part of the agenda for President-elect Donald J. Trump’s administration. The Republican platform calls for increasing the role of banks in giving out student loans. And Mr. Trump and the platform advocate an expansion of both vouchers, which enable students to attend the private school of their choice with government funds, and charter schools. In addition, Betsy DeVos, Mr. Trump’s nominee for education secretary, has supported legislation that would establish vouchers in Michigan, as well as the rapid expansion of the state’s charter school sector. You might think that most economists agree with this overall approach, because economists generally like free markets. For example, over 90 percent of the members of the University of Chicago’s panel of leading economists thought that ride-hailing services like Uber and Lyft made consumers better off by providing competition for the highly regulated taxi industry. But economists are far less optimistic about what an unfettered market can achieve in education. Only a third of economists on the Chicago panel agreed that students would be better off if they all had access to vouchers to use at any private (or public) school of their choice. While economists are trained about the value of free markets, they are also trained to spot when markets can’t work alone and government intervention is required. http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/12/30/upshot/free-market-for-education-economists-generally-dont-buy-it.html Good "guess" Snakey! Party pooper! and ohh yes, we should all be listening to Chicago economists and board of education lackeys. How many times have they had a teacher's union strike over "unfair teacher standards" over the last 10 years? Ahhhh....the blessed sactuary city of Chicago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Posted January 1, 2017 Share Posted January 1, 2017 It absolutely positively won't work and instead provide less opportunities for low income families, not more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anler Posted January 1, 2017 Share Posted January 1, 2017 This won't work. If they want free market education then they should make it all private and stop funding with our tax dollars. But you know what happens then... Rich kids get great education and poor kids get none. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cold War Posted January 1, 2017 Share Posted January 1, 2017 (edited) Lol, pretty easy to say when it isn't your kids in a district where they not only have to fear being robbed by fellow students, but teachers, principals, administrators, as well. Around here it is always framed as a race issue. Somehow black & white students wanting to escape deplorable conditions is racist. Edited January 1, 2017 by Cold War Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snake Posted January 1, 2017 Author Share Posted January 1, 2017 Holy miss the point Batman.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rod Posted January 2, 2017 Share Posted January 2, 2017 Looks like more agree than disagree Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ez ryder Posted January 2, 2017 Share Posted January 2, 2017 so 1/3 of Chicago economists thought it was a good idea . so I am 100% on board with that info alone . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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