School Reform's Establishment Turn
The Council on Foreign Relations is out with a report endorsing more choice and competition in our schools, as this WSJ editorial notes:
The Council on Foreign Relations is the clubhouse of America's establishment, a land of pinstripe suits and typically polite, status-quo thinking. Yet today CFR will publish a report that examines the national-security impact of America's broken education system—and prescribes school choice as a primary antidote. Do you believe in miracles?
…The CFR reports says this "suggests a misallocation of resources and a lack of productivity-enhancing innovations. . . . U.S. elementary and secondary schools are not organized to promote competition, choice, and innovation—the factors that catalyze success in other U.S. sectors."
Spoken like Milton Friedman, but now endorsed by a Council task force led by former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and former New York schools chief Joel Klein, who is an education executive at News Corp., which owns this newspaper. The authors also include former Fortune 500 executives, leading researchers, and even Randi Weingarten of the American Federation of Teachers
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· March 19, 2012, 7:33 p.m. ET
School Reform's Establishment Turn
The Council on Foreign Relations endorses choice and competition.
posted by Whitney Tilson at 4:53 PM
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