Competition is key to education excellence
We have said it before, competition is key. Competition pushes everyone to be better.
When it comes to education, the status quo isn’t working. But the good news, more and more are taking up the cause that what we need in education is radical reforms and greater competition.
In this column by US Congressman Tom Tancredo in the Rocky Mountain News, the Congressman makes the case for education reforms.
“I am a former public school teacher, and like it or not, education is a product. As we all know, you don’t get a better product by stifling competition or imposing a rigid regime of government protectionism.
If we want a better product when it comes to education – higher educational achievement levels by our school graduates – our government policies must be geared toward satisfying the consumer: students and their parents.”
Tancredo goes on to challenge the status quo mentality of the unions and urges free market- not big government- solutions to improving educational opportunities for all students.
“If history has taught us anything, it is that solutions to some of the world’s most complex problems have come only when we have unleashed the power of the free market. The answer to the education problem, simply put, is more choices for parents, and more competition by schools for students. It is not another ambitious big government “solution” put together by the same special interests that have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo – a status quo that even Romer and Ritter admit leaves our students lagging far behind youngsters from Seoul and Singapore as they enter a newly competitive global economy.”
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