Article Link: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2014/09/19/innovation-what-american-education-needs-more-than-anything/ My first two articles were from CNN and the NYT and so I decided that a fox news article would provide me with a different perspective. It did. Each of the previous articles I read provided a different argument about our educational failures. The NYT blamed them of funding, CNN on too little government control. Fox blamed it on too much government control and a failure to trust in the "educational miracles of the free market." The author of the article, Peter Roff, argued that the same funding could produce better results in our education system if it was given to private enterprise. He then attacked the high tuition rates of supposedly non-profit colleges. I wholeheartedly agree that college costs are unjustifiably high and they should by no means by even 1/5 of what they are at many colleges I completely disagree with his solution. First of all, almost every other country on earth has kept college costs down not by privatization but through more government control. In fact many governments are the sole providers of higher education. Prices are therefore kept down because there is no competition between colleges driving up prices. While in some industries competition does increase the quality of the product offered, education does not seem, to me, to be one of them because it is almost impossible to accurately measure educational outcomes. Furthermore, nationalized with nationalized university systems often have national curriculum standards that extend through college, meaning that the quality of education is not supported by competition in a difficult to measure area, but by the law itself. While I disagree with Roff's point in this area I do understand his frustration with our college system. What I do not understand is his seeming desire to privatize every level of education, starting in elementary schools through charter schools and school vouchers. While I understand how competition acts as useful motivation for innovation I fail to see how a for-profit kindergarten would be in anyone's best interest. In fact what Roff seems to be suggesting, however obliquely, is a full-scale privatization of our education system, which would have disastrous consequences for education equality. I read several other of Roff's articles and was interested to learn that he seems to advocate "innovation" "privatization" and "less government" in every single situation. I then looked him up on the internet and discovered that not only is he employed by on organization, Frontiers of Freedom, that takes money from, among others, oil and mining companies, but that Roff has personally received research funding from Kaplan university, whose work he relentlessly extols. Roff states that new government regulation of the private sector would be "an opportunity killer for students.” In reality it would be an opportunity killed for Roff himself.