Based on the headline and the first few paragraphs I was excited to read about a free market approach to public teaching.
But most of his students are "high-school students looking to boost their scores on South Korea's version of the SAT."
So is the article really about a $4m/yr teacher?
Or a $4m/yr test prep guru?
Test-prep is a HUGE industry in the USA.
"Princeton Review" alone pulled down ~$150,000,000 in 2012.(1)
John Katzman, a Princeton grad, founded it in 1981.
So we've already tread this right?
And the major criticism of Princeton review and other testing houses is that they drastically skew the balance of the tests by (a) Giving privileged kids an unfair advantage (b) Damaging the test integrity which is designed to find bright kids, not just "well prepared for this one day" kids.
So that's not really that unique and, in fact, we've got a long history of how this type of market has under-served the US' own system.
But great headline, got me to click.
(1) http://www.wbjournal.com/article/20100830/PRINTEDITION/30830...
But most of his students are "high-school students looking to boost their scores on South Korea's version of the SAT."
So is the article really about a $4m/yr teacher?
Or a $4m/yr test prep guru?
Test-prep is a HUGE industry in the USA.
"Princeton Review" alone pulled down ~$150,000,000 in 2012.(1)
John Katzman, a Princeton grad, founded it in 1981.
So we've already tread this right?
And the major criticism of Princeton review and other testing houses is that they drastically skew the balance of the tests by (a) Giving privileged kids an unfair advantage (b) Damaging the test integrity which is designed to find bright kids, not just "well prepared for this one day" kids.
So that's not really that unique and, in fact, we've got a long history of how this type of market has under-served the US' own system.
But great headline, got me to click.
(1) http://www.wbjournal.com/article/20100830/PRINTEDITION/30830...