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Ed schools, monopolies, and the source of change

Right Wing Prof is calling us out!  These two posts are worth your time, but this stinger from the first link is pretty much the linchpin of his argument:

Educrats hold all the power, whether the school is private, public, or charter. And the source of all the problems in education today come directly from the educration bureaucracy.

No, even with vouchers, there will be no true, free market in education. There will be a severely constricted market, at least until schools start deliberately hiring teachers who do not drink the Dewey kool-aid. And that won’t happen until there are schools that aren’t being run by educrats that don’t drink the Dewey kool-aid. So while I support vouchers, I don’t believe for a second that vouchers — choice — will make a significant difference in the quality of education.

The Prof makes some very salient points.  They’re not new, either, especially with Arthur Levine’s recent ed school report making waves. 

Here’s what I’d like everybody to do.  Read those two posts.  Internalize them.  Because they connect quite nicely to some stuff I’ve been meaning to get to regarding Levine’s study and the changing face of school choice dynamics.  Stay tuned. 

(UPDATE: Wrong name.  Fixed now.) 

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