Education in Turmoil

Public education has failed Americans. Politicized and gutted by special interest groups, the nation's education system costs taxpayers $350 billion a year.

The benefits reaped from this dubious investment? Millions of functionally illiterate high school "graduates" incapable of performing simple mathematical tasks without calculators.

Education in Turmoil outlines the social, political, and educational costs of a broken education system. James De GrandPre explains how the Department of Education, far from being concerned with student education, instead pursues political goals, aided and abetted by the nation's largest union, the National Education Association.

De GrandPre posits a revolutionary and controversial solution. The privatization of the national school system would encourage competition among schools, transforming a stagnating government-run quagmire into a thriving free-market business model.

Privatized schools would be free to teach without the constraints of a monopolizing bureaucracy, which operates in violation of national anti-trust laws. Competition would force each school to strive for the best possible education while relieving taxpayers of an ever-increasing tax burden.