[Jacquerie]

That’s the first I’ve heard of this. I cannot find any weakness in his proposal. Private credentialing, why not?

[wintertime]

Here is the link to Charles Murray's paper.

http://www.aei.org/docLib/Murray%20Intelligence.pdf

The subject of credentialing exams or qualifying exams I was starts on page 104 under the topic heading of “An Alternative” It is about 4 or 5 paragraphs long.

By the way...The entire paper is **very** interesting!

[wintertime]

Credentialing exams would also promote a vigorous cottage industry in private tutoring. And...Parents would begin to take responsibility for educating their own children. It would help wean the middle classes away from their dependence on government schooling.

[wintertime]

One more thing:

The more parents take charge of their own child's education the support for government education will be undermined. The more quickly a child can move through his education the less he will use the government schools.

Government schools need two things: Students and voter who will give them money. Credentialing exams robs the government schools of both students ( and the money that comes with each child) and voter support.

Also...ALL of K-12 could be on the Internet. It could even be completely free to the student if the the producers of the on-line material and the testing agencies accepted advertising. In fact, excellent on-line teacher could become very rich ( Mark Zuckerman rich!)