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   larryg

   November 17, 2011

   re: privatizing K-12. The Hoover folks cite South Korea, Japan, India and Sweden. What they do not talk about is that these countries have national curriculums, national testing – and a readily-usable way to evaluate schools and instructors whereas in this country – the advocacy from folks like Hoover is to turn over education to the private sector – without such standard curriculums and standards – i.e. methods for measuring.

   In this country, our current problems are due, in fact, to a lack of a national curricula and a national standard way of evaluating students and teachers so privatizing – without transparency and accountability is going to be an even worse unmitigated disaster.

   My view here is that let’s do have private sector competition – I’m all for it – but let’s also have a standard way of measuring that applies to both private and public sector – AND lets recognize that part of the massive cost of public schools is the “extras” which are not going to be “free” in privatized schools.

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