Commoditizing education: BAD.

Blog 2/23/2010

Man, lets talk about education reform. So many problems, so little time. There are a lot of things that I would change. First, I agree with the fact that American schools is an extremely inefficient beast. The fact of the matter is that the school system should be run like a business. The resources that are available are not allocated correctly. However, I do not think that turning to the private sector for solutions is the best idea. Ultimately. If we want capitalism to solve the problems that are found in education, we will find that it will create a lot of money for someone but learning will be a side product. What we do need is to have someone with the vision to go in a reorganize exactly how school work. This of course s difficult because the political capital in order to do something as beaureaucratic as the school system. That being said, here is a list of probelms or ideas that we could tackle. Schools should be reformed to more taylor to the needs of their students. Schools should be offered opportunities to change their schools, not requirements. Also, the federals government should provide a solid foundation of standards and corresponding curriculum that teachers can use. One of the problems in education is that schools continually waste money in attempt to purchase their into result for students. Rather than letting the private sector to continually make dollar after dollar, the government should create a great curriculum along with resources that every teacher can use. This would ultimately cost much less and the education system would have more money to pay teachers more. A priority. Also, someone needs to go in and find a way to make sure that teachers are being rewarded for their performance in the classroom and held accountable. But that’s a whole other can of worms to open. Anyways, I think we need to take the incentive for companies to make money out of education and simply use resources available to make resources available to everyone. If you make knowledge a commodity in education in a capitalist setting, you instantly make it more scarce because it becomes worth more