Thursday, June 02, 2005

No Child Left Behind: The Dangers of Centralized Education Policy

"Instead of using centralized decrees to turn mediocre institutions into excellent ones, as they have been trying but failing to do for the last several decades, the state and federal governments should be empowering individual families to 'vote with their feet' by transferring to the schools of their own choice. The key locus for such revolutionary reforms is the states. The best contribution the national government can make to educational improvement is to avoid educational policymaking and allow states to experiment with school choice programs." Source: The Cato Institute

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