Monday, November 28, 2005 It’s time to admit that public education operates like a planned economy, a bureaucratic system in which everybody’s role is spelled out in advance and there are few incentives for innovation and productivity. It’s no surprise that our school system doesn’t improve: It more resembles the communist economy than our own market economy. — Albert Shanker, former President of the American Federation of Teachers [1989]

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