In my fantasy world, the Fed gives up all it’s control and funding of “public education” to the states. Then the states can best decide what to do with “public education”. The answer may well be to privatize education while maintaining standardized testing. The states would then compete with each other to produce the best and the brightest students.
Many people with children tend to look for areas to live with the best school systems. It might very well change the demographics of our national population.
But think of the money it would save while also improving the education of our youth. Schools would have to advertise and perform on real budgets.
Introduce some competition.
But then they would do things differently and we could figure out what "the" "best" methods are for achieving various goals through an efficient market approach. Not to mention the moral aspects of letting people decide what they want.
No, we're much better off having 536 lawyers in DC decide the one approach that's best for everyone.
> The answer may well be to privatize education while
> maintaining standardized testing.
Whose standards?
Don’t let that camel’s nose under the tent.
Get the government out of education altogether. There’s no way it could be worse than it is now. At least the children won’t be brainwashed into a totalitarian, collectivist, statist mentality.