Discontent with public education has been on the rise in recent
years, as parents complain that their children are not being taught
the basics, that they are not pushed to excel, and that their
classrooms are too chaotic to encourage any real learning. The
public has begun to reject school bond levies with regularity,
frustrated by what it perceives to be mounting education costs
unaccompanied by increased achievement or accountability.
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 over discipline, drugs, and
violence in public 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 successfully educated generations past and
which did not. His historical study ranges from classical Greece
and ancient Rome, through the Islamic world of the Middle Ages, to
nineteenth-century England and modern America.
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. He sets out a blueprint for
competitive, free-market educational reform that would make schools
more flexible, more innovative, and more responsive to the needs of
parents and students. He describes how education for low-income
children might be funded under a market system, and how the
transition from monopolistic public education to market education
might be achieved.
Coulson's Market Education touches on a wide range of issues,
including declines in academic achievement, minority education, the
role of public school teachers, and mismanagement and corruption in
educational bureaucracies. Coulson examines alternative reform
proposals from vouchers and charter schools to national standards
for school curricula. This timely and engaging book will appeal to
parents, educators, and others concerned with the quality and cost
of schooling, and will serve as an excellent resource in college
courses on the economics and history of education.
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