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To: Joe Btfsplk who wrote (15007)	3/24/2006 3:37:08 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541249

Few of the products of teaching colleges can measure up to an Escalante or a Collins. Still, they need incentives, financial foremost, to emulate proven success as best they can. Their existing incentives lie elsewhere. I completely agree with this. I've watched, for many years longer than I care, students choosing majors/careers. I've met a great many who would love to teach, would be quite good at it, but conclude they can't afford to do so. Given the importance of education for individual and social well being, you would think we would fund it at much higher levels. Our single-payer schooling system does not take advantage of the discovery process inherent in market competition. I'm not certain what you mean by this. If you are arguing that a voucher system would produce more innovation in education than our present system of public education, it would help if you could either offer arguments or some good articles which argue such.