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Education fails when schools profit

Our mania for measurement in the schools – for testing, for databases, for assessment – has produced more arguments than answers.

But we’ve gotten a very clear picture of one segment of our educational system: For-profit, online schools are generally doing a worse job of educating students than real schools. Kindergarten through college. And they’re making a ton of money. A lot of it is taxpayer money, thrown their way under the mantle of "reform" or "choice."

There is no reason in the world to think it will do anything but continue to boom. Idaho is building online courses into its core requirements, and schools everywhere, at all levels, are turning to these companies more and more.

Shawn Vestal The Spokesman-Review

Full Story: http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2012/aug/01/shawn-vestal-education-fails-when-schools-profit/

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