Another study showing how the free market is not appropriate for education, especially for the disadvantaged kids they claim it will help.

“Harris explains how schools are ill-suited for a free market approach, and so, when looking at current school choice policy he finds, ‘the current direction of policy is off-track and apparently inconsistent with the main criteria on which we evaluate education policy and even with the values that voucher advocates themselves profess.’

“Harris points out that not only are educational free markets inefficient and marked by the failures noted above, but that this inefficiency also leads to inequity.

“It is not just that the assumptions underlying efficiency do not hold in the market for schooling overall, but that they are even further from the truth for marginalized, oppressed, and disadvantaged families…

“The features needed for free market efficiency are not anywhere in place for schooling, but they are most severely absent for those marginalized, oppressed, and disadvantaged families…

“To the degree competition does arise, it gets misdirected so that schools compete to select the best students and to provide the best marketing and customer service, not to provide the best instruction and curriculum.”

Read full article here: https://www.forbes.com/sites/petergreene/2023/10/31/economist-douglas-harris-schools-cannot-fit-a-free-market/?fbclid=IwAR1-liC9pu70TPvDQd65FeqaY2LSfYje5m7REWoCUg_R1Q8CvTp1yBbji3c&sh=1b9a5ec62014&mibextid=Zxz2cZ

Originally posted on Facebook on Nov. 4th, 2023.