"It's not as simple as paying teachers more if their students pass tests."
That's not the interesting thing that privatization allows. What it allows is the doing of something fundamentally different.
I don't see privatization as "the current school system, just private". Yes, that is what it is now, mostly, unless you poke around what are currently very fringe bits. What I see is a world in which (in a nutshell) self-serve homeschooling becomes easier and easier and more effective until it eats the current system from the inside. Give it about 20 years. Public schooling will survive, but as part of a large ecosystem, instead of the whole.
"As soon as you give up on public education and only see privatization as the answer, you give up on addressing the education gap between different socioeconomic groups."
No we don't. Vouchers may not be 100% "free market", but it's not going to keep me up at night.
That's not the interesting thing that privatization allows. What it allows is the doing of something fundamentally different.
I don't see privatization as "the current school system, just private". Yes, that is what it is now, mostly, unless you poke around what are currently very fringe bits. What I see is a world in which (in a nutshell) self-serve homeschooling becomes easier and easier and more effective until it eats the current system from the inside. Give it about 20 years. Public schooling will survive, but as part of a large ecosystem, instead of the whole.
"As soon as you give up on public education and only see privatization as the answer, you give up on addressing the education gap between different socioeconomic groups."
No we don't. Vouchers may not be 100% "free market", but it's not going to keep me up at night.