Episode
James Tooley on Private Schools for the Poor and the Beautiful Tree
EconTalk · Dec 29, 2014 · 1 h 07 min
James Tooley, Professor of Education at Newcastle University, talks to EconTalk host Russ Roberts about low-cost for-profit private schools in the slums and rural areas of poor countries. Tooley shows how surprisingly widespread private schools are for the poor and how effective they are relative to public schools where teacher attendance and performance can be very disappointing. The…