The Results of School Privatization

News of results are beginning to come in since Edison took over a number of schools and school districts over the past few years. Interestingly enough, the results from parents, school employees are mixed. The St. Petersburg Times article, gives a few quotes from stakeholders (parents and teahers) whose schools were taken over by Edison. They claim to notice a different but mainly mention the new textbooks and classroom materials.

The most important question raised by the article seems to be whether or not its possible to raise the level of education, while spending the same (or less) amount of money (perhaps more efficiently) and see better results? In additon, it's important to note that the results being generated by Edison at these schools appear to be coming from methods that are being employed at other schools.

It will be interesting to see if, over time, Edison's profit motives lead the company to develop innovative and cost effective methods of instruction that generate better results. Only time will tell...

Posted by: Brad on Nov. 09, 2005 at 7:41 AM EST
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