Our Kids, Our Future: Privatization and Public Investment in Education
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- Опубликовано: 11 апр 2016
- A 3-minute animated video from SCOPE explaining the differences between experimental privatization models and public investment in equitable education systems. Policy makers are choosing between these models today. What does research and evidence tell us about the best outcomes for kids? edpolicy.stanford.edu/GlobalE...
"In [Chile's] system, students like Sofia, Maria, and Carla perform among the lowest in the world on international tests."
Chile outperforms all other South American countries on 2015 PISA Math, Reading, and Science assessments.
Country (PISA rank): Hong Kong(#2)**, Macao(#3)**, Taiwan(#4), Korea(#7), Canada(#10), the Netherlands(11)* and Denmark(#12) outperform Finland(#13) on the 2015 Math assessment. All of the above countries subsidize education options outside the system of government-operated schools.
*Over 50% of enrollment in non-government schools.
**Over 90% of enrollment in non-government schools.
"As in Chile, some cities and States have begun investing in charter schools, like in New Orleans, saying that they offer choice. However(1), supplying private companies(2) with education tax dollars means they make profit(3) with little public oversight(4) and less money goes to kids like Kayla.(5)"
1. The material which follows "however" does not rebut the contention that charter schools "offer choice".
2. Unions, even public sector unions like the NEA, AFT, and AFSCME are -private- 501-c(5) corporations.
3. "Profit" is a bookkeeping term, the difference between total revenues and total costs. An organization which has no line in its balance sheet for profit must attribute all revenues to costs. This says nothing about the motives of the people in that organization.
4. Look how well "public oversight" worked for the Oakland school system and DC school system under Antwan Wilson. Look at how well "public oversight" worked for the Broward, Fla. school system. DC schools receive over $28,000 per pupil.
5. If the voucher or charter subsidy is for a fraction a/b less than 1 of the district's regular-ed per pupil budget, the per pupil budget which remains in the district's account for the students who remain in the district's schools will rise with every student who leaves the district's schools.
Jesus that was a smackdown. Obliterated every point in this horrid video.
Public schools here in Australia re both bankrupt and overfunded at the same time.
This whole system needs a redesign, this current bullshit of starting school at 4-7 and being shat out into the workforce with no real life skills is depressing and fucked up.
"Produced by Frank Adamson and Ralph Rogers"
Frank Adamson bio: "I work at SCOPE because of the idea that public education creates democracy."
Compulsory attendance at government-operated State-worshipful indoctrination centers characterizes totalitarian governments. In the early post-revolutionary US, most polities either did not compel attendance at school or subsidized attendance at schools of the parents' choice. Most of the delegates to the Continental Congress and Constitutional Convention never attended a government-operated school.
Belgium*, Canada(1), Chile*, England, Hong Kong**, Ireland**, the Republic of Korea, Macau**, the Netherlands*, Sweden, and Taiwan subsidize education options outside the system of government-operated schools. Cuba and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea compel attendance at schools operated by government employees.
This video fails to mention the bad aspects of these supposed "golden education systems" in other countries. Education as a whole has its issues and we need to learn how to fix them, but we shouldn't be ignoring the good the US education system is doing.
Learn more from the book, Global Education Reform: edpolicy.stanford.edu/GlobalEdReform
here from my liberal studies class