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In Western countries with compulsory free schooling, as much as twenty percent of the population is functionally illiterate. Also, as many as ten percent of government students are absent on the average day, more than twice the rate of private school students.<ref name="Tooley_Education">James Tooley. "Education in the Voluntary City," in ''The Voluntary City: Choice, Community, and Civil Society'', ed. D. Beito, Peter Gordon & A. Tabarrok (Independent Institute, Ann Arbor, 2002), p. 223. Referenced 2012-04-18.</ref> | |||
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Revision as of 08:34, 18 April 2012
Public education is education sponsored by the government.[1]
See also: Private school
See also: Education: Free and Compulsory
Performance
In Western countries with compulsory free schooling, as much as twenty percent of the population is functionally illiterate. Also, as many as ten percent of government students are absent on the average day, more than twice the rate of private school students.[2]
References
- ↑ Encyclopædia Britannica Online. "education 2012.", referenced 2012-04-17.
- ↑ James Tooley. "Education in the Voluntary City," in The Voluntary City: Choice, Community, and Civil Society, ed. D. Beito, Peter Gordon & A. Tabarrok (Independent Institute, Ann Arbor, 2002), p. 223. Referenced 2012-04-18.
Links
- "Disestablish Public Education" by Leonard P. Liggio, 1971
- "Is "Academic Freedom" a Special Kind of Freedom?" by Walter Block, 1977
- Why Schools Don't Educate by John Taylor Gatto, January 1990
- What Really Matters by John Taylor Gatto, November/December 1994
- How Did We Get Into This Mess? by James Ostrowski, November 2009 (a history of public education)
- "The War on the Young" by Brian Foglia, February 2010
- "The Trouble with Reform" by Christopher Westley, April 2010
- Jaime Escalante: Master Teacher, Envious System by Gary North, April 2010
- College: Big Investment, Paltry Return by Francesca Di Meglio, June 2010
- "The Anti-Educational Effects of Public Schools" by Gennady Stolyarov II, July 2010
- Live and Learn: Why we have college. by Louis Menand, June 2011
- "University Guildsmen and Anticapitalism" by Morgan A. Brown, January 2012
- Public education at Wikipedia