Why pay to upgrade textbooks? Because it is GOVERNMENT!
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| Bob_Robertson Aug 06, 2006 11:22 AM EDT |
In a government bureaucracy, there are only two ways to measure success: Larger staffs and/or Bigger budgets. That's it. California government schools have no "profit and loss" measurement to tell if their customers are happy, because their customers are coerced (like only being able to buy a PC with Windows pre-installed) both to attend _and_ to pay for the service. They have no incentive what so ever to be either efficient or successful, because by consistently failing they get to beg for, wait for it.... Bigger staffs and larger budgets! Richard Feynman was asked, once, to help select mathematics textbooks for use in California schools. He wrote that, literally, one of the candidates sent to the committee by the publisher was just the cover of the book. And the other committee members were already rating the book highly! Any "answer" that doesn't address the real reason for educational failure, that it is government run, cannot be anything other than a failure. http://www.angelfire.com/pa/sergeman/issues/education/homesc... http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/ http://www.sepschool.org/ |
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