If Economists Ran the Schools

freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com

8 pointscwan4 comments

I was really hoping for something more interesting than "economics would be a required subject".

Yeah, my first thought as well. Was hoping they had ran some crazy experiments or something like that.

"All staff members are on one-year contracts."

Simple to say, profound implications for education.

Experiments I imagined, before being sorely let down by the article:

* Paying kids to do school work

* Paying kids to create school work

* Paying kids to break up school work into easily solvable modules

* Paying kids to combine school work into more difficult modules

* Paying kids to run the school

* Paying kids to find holes in the school system