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    Filed at 4:40 am under by dcobranchi

    I’m sure this Op/Ed is selling something. I just haven’t figured out what. They have five ideas for improving education. I liked them until the very last sentence:

    Use the free market. Web-based publishers should make Internet learning games available directly to parents at reasonable prices. This partial home schooling provides educational choice without the drastic measures of full home schooling, private school or vouchers.

    Drastic measures? Ugh!

    One Response to “A COMMERCIAL?”


    Comment by
    Skip Oliva
    May 28th, 2004
    at 8:59 am

    There is nothing “free market” about that sentence, obviously. Aside from allowing only limited options, what exactly constitutes “reasonable” prices for Internet materials? Will educrats now get to decide prices for consumer goods as well as the content of state-mandated curriculum?