Yet it was Darwin who observed that in natural selection, survivors aren't the best, they are the best adapted . Rats, for instance, are better adapted to life in sewers than tigers. Starlings are better adapted to living in urban areas than are bald eagles. If we use market forces to reform schooling, it isn't the best schools, but the best adapted , that will survive. Let's look at the marketplace to see if we can find out.
Television provides an instructive example.
Programming is based on competition for ratings. The Dating Game, the World Wrestling Federation, MTV, Ricky Lake, Jerry Springer, infomercials, tabloid journalism, the soaps, ad nauseum. Perhaps television is an abnormality. Let's look at another example. Free market forces shape the radio industry even more than television.