By doing so, we can discover what has worked, what hasn't, and why. What history shows is that the problems of high-spending, lack of successful innovation, unresponsiveness to the needs of families, and social strife over what is taught are mainly caused by the way public schools are run, not by the people who staff them or the particular standards or curricula they adopt. These are conclusions that few people want to hear, much less believe. Public schooling has a long history in most industrialized countries and we have all grown accustomed to it. But however much we may want public schooling to work, there is insurmountable evidence that it has never worked as well as competitive educational markets , and that it cannot work as well.
Government is only a tool, and for the purpose of education it simply happens to be the wrong tool.
The Unknown History can be found on the Position Statement page of this website. Since these recommendations call for a complete transformation of the way that we educate our children, it is crucial that they be fully and carefully debated. To that end, a selection of critical works has been gathered together on this site. It is hoped that School Choices will help citizens to assess the relative merits of public schooling and free educational markets, and make the best choice for the future of their children and communities.