"James Tooley has taken his argument about the transformative power
of low-cost private education to a new and revelatory level in
Really Good Schools. This is a bold and inspiring manifesto for a
global revolution in education." --Niall C. Ferguson, Milbank
Family Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
Almost overnight a virus has brought into question America's nearly
200-year-old government-run K-12 school-system--and prompted an
urgent search for alternatives. But where should we turn to find
them? Enter James Tooley's Really Good Schools. A distinguished
scholar of education and the world's foremost expert on private,
low-cost innovative education, Tooley takes readers to some of the
world's most impoverished communities located in some of the
world's most dangerous places--including such war-torn countries as
Sierra Leone, Liberia, and South Sudan. And there, in places where
education "experts" fear to tread, Tooley finds thriving private
schools that government, multinational NGOs, and even international
charity officials deny exist. Why? Because the very existence of
low-cost, high-quality private schools shatters the prevailing myth
in the U.S., U.K., and western Europe that, absent government,
affordable, high-quality schools for the poor could not exist. But
they do. And they are ubiquitous and in high demand. Founded by
unheralded, local educational entrepreneurs, these schools are
proving that self-organized education is not just possible but
flourishing--often enrolling far more students than "free"
government schools do at prices within reach of even the most
impoverished families. In the course of his analysis Tooley asks
the key questions: What proportion of poor children is served? How
good are the private schools? What are the business models for
these schools? And can they be replicated and improved? The
evidence is in. In poor urban and rural areas around the world,
children in low-cost private schools outperform those in government
schools. And the schools do so for a fraction of the per-pupil
cost. Thanks to the pandemic, parents in America and Europe are
discovering that the education of their children is indeed
possible--and likely far better--without government meddling with
rigid seat-time mandates, outdated school calendars, absurd
age-driven grade levels, and worse testing regimes. And having
experienced the first fruits of educational freedom, parents will
be increasingly open to the possibilities of ever greater
educational entrepreneurship and innovation. Thankfully, they have
Really Good Schools to show the way.
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