Market Education: The Unknown History
In Market Education: The Unknown History, Andrew J. Coulson explores the educational problems facing parents and shows how these problems can best be addressed. He begins with a discussion of what people want from their school systems, tracing their views of the kinds of knowledge, skills, and values education should impart, and their concerns about discipline, drugs, and violence in schools. Using this survey of goals and attitudes as a guide, Coulson sets out to compare the school systems...
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In Market Education: The Unknown History, Andrew J. Coulson explores the educational problems facing parents and shows how these problems can best be addressed. He begins with a discussion of what people want from their school systems, tracing their views of the kinds of knowledge, skills, and values education should impart, and their concerns about discipline, drugs, and violence in schools. Using this survey of goals and attitudes as a guide, Coulson sets out to compare the school systems of civilizations both ancient and modern, seeking to determine which systems achieved the aims of parents and the public at large and which did not. Drawing on the historical evidence of how these various systems operated, Coulson concludes that free educational markets have consistently done a better job of serving the public's needs than state-run school systems have. William Raspberry Coulson's is a sweeping blow to those of us who keep hoping the system that served earlier generations reasonably well can be helped to overcome the effects of bad policies, inadequate teachers, disengaged parents and indifferent students to perform their magic yet again. He wonders if the magic was ever there. -- Washington Post
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1Pt. IWhat We Want1Getting Used to Disappointment7Pt. IIWhat's Been Tried2Right from the Beginning: Classical Athens and Beyond373Revolutions: The More Things Change734Coup d'Ecole: The War for Control of American Education1075Teachers and Teaching in the Government Schools1396The Performance Crisis in Public Schooling1777Common School Problems: The World Tour2198The Class Really Is Keener on the Other Side: The Case of Independent Schools259Pt. IIIWhat Works9What Makes Schools Work?29310Can Government Schooling Be Fixed?323Conclusion: Achieving Educational Excellence367Notes393Index453About the Author471
\ William RaspberryCoulson's is a sweeping blow to those of us who keep hoping the system that served earlier generations reasonably well can be helped to overcome the effects of bad policies, inadequate teachers, disengaged parents and indifferent students to perform their magic yet again. He wonders if the magic was ever there. -- Washington Post\ \ \ \ \ BooknewsA Seattle-based researcher with the Social Philosophy and Policy Center, Coulson traverses what we want, what's been tried, and what works in school systems ancient and contemporary, to support his argument that free educational markets serve the public's needs better than state-run monopolistic schooling. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknew.com)\ \
