If teaching were as competitive as market making major cities might graduate more than half their students from high school while simultaneously driving down costs. Non profit is not a badge of honor.
Yes. Kind of a good example how competitive systems lead to a better end result for customers. Competitive teaching is something we should actually encourage. Tyler Cowen often argues how the availability of systems to teach to a huge number of students is going to make teaching superstars and bring the cost of teaching down to almost zero because the marginal cost of distributing teaching is almost 0 with enough students.
If more students and their families in major cities understood the benefits of learning in high school and were able and motivated to pursue them -- that is, if being knowledgeable were a badge of honor -- would schools be more likely to respond to them, with an ultimate result of higher graduation rates?
