Government Education Monopolies Work as Poorly in France as the do in the U.S.
From Marginal Revolution:
The United State’s has one of the most admired university systems in the world and one of the most deplored k-12 systems. Could the difference have something to do with the fact that universities operate in a competitive market with lots of private suppliers while k-12 is dominated by monopolistic, government provided schools?
Marginal Revolution next asks “what would our university system look like if it operated like the k-12 system? It turns out that France has a university system very close to what our high school monopolistic system is. To no one’s surprise, it is a disaster akin to our public schools. Read their post for more.
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