Check this out. I am listening to the audiobook The Power of Full Engagement by Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz. Like what I hear so far in the first CD.

The National Center for Policy Analysis hosted a luncheon with John Stossell today at the Belo Mansion. It's always refreshing to hear from a libertarian, who is definitely for free market and limited government except I think they go a little too far with the doctrine of free will on the moral issues. The topic is about education and the need to leave it to free market forces instead of in the hands of the government bureaucrats who have a monopolizing stranglehold on the education institutions. Government without exception never does anything better than a free market solution. The US Postal Service said they couldn't deliver things overnight until FedEx came along and proved them wrong. Attached the money, whether it's $6,800 per year per student, or $10,000, to the kid and let the school compete for that kid and his money. The bureaucrats will tell you most parents won't be able to evaluate every aspect of a school to determine which one of the schools is the best. Most people can go out and buy a car, and how many are expert on cars? In an open society, good news travel fast and bad news even faster. Right now, parents and their children are trapped in a school unless they choose to sell their house and move to a different neighborhood. That should not be. Some of the charter school now begin to have teachers available through a cell phone until 9:00 pm, where kids can call and ask questions about homework. Eventually, parents will see that and ask, why don't my kids have that? American kids are on par with kids in other developed countries until about fourth grade. By twelth grade, a kid in Belgium will score 76 on the International Test compare to 47 for a kid in an above average school in New Jersey, which is the state that is above average in these United States. Kids are not motivated to learn because learning is not being made attractive and fun to them. And that is because there aren't the best teachers in the classroom. Some school districts have more administrative personnels than teachers in the classroom.

Americans have to come up with innovative program like Perfect Attendance to keep kids in school. In Vietnam, K-12 are not compulsory, the parents have to pay tuition so there are a lot of kids whose family couldn't afford it have to drop out even though they love to learn. What a contrast!