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ECONOMIC THEORY & EDUCATION....evidence of change.There is a long game plan to privatize education, end the profession of teaching by making it just a job, destroy teacher unions, and monetize education for profits. All in the name of Friedman's Free Market god, a god proven, over and over, to have clay feet. But in recent months, almost unnoticed by the mainstream media, the school voucher movement has abruptly stalled. Some stalwart advocates of vouchers have either repudiated the idea entirely or considerably tempered their enthusiasm for it. "School Choice Isn't Enough," an article in the 2008 City Journal. Acknowledging that voucher programs for poor children had "hit a wall," Stern concluded: "Education reformers ought to resist unreflective support for elegant-sounding theories, derived from the study of economic activity, that don't produce verifiable results in the classroom."
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