Title: Market education
First published: 1999
Description: In Market Education: The Unknown History, Andrew J. Coulson explores the educational problems facing parents and shows how these problems can best be addressed. He begins with a discussion of what people want from their school systems, tracing their views of the kinds of knowledge, skills, and values education should impart, and their concerns about discipline, drugs, and violence in schools. Using this survey of goals and attitudes as a guide, Coulson sets out to compare the school systems of civilizations both ancient and modern, seeking to determine which systems achieved the aims of parents and the public at large and which did not. Drawing on the historical evidence of how these various systems operated, Coulson concludes that free educational markets have consistently done a better job of serving the public's needs than state-run school systems have.
Subjects: Privatization in education, Aims and objectives, Educational accountability, Comparative education, Educational change, Public schools, Education, Evaluation, History, Responsabilité du rendement (Éducation), Écoles publiques, Privatisation en éducation, Réforme, Doelstellingen, Éducation comparée, Éducation, Évaluation, Enseignement, Histoire, Onderwijs, Filosofische aspecten, Finalités, Education, aims and objectives, Education, philosophy, Education and state, Education, history, Education, united states
Places: United States
LC classification: LA212 .C68 1999