Book review of the day: James Tooley's "The Beautiful Tree"

Pamela Stub­bart writes: 

Accord­ing to Too­ley, devel­op­ment experts are mostly either unaware of the exis­tence of low-cost pri­vate schools, or they crit­i­cize them on a few main grounds, includ­ing that the teach­ers are uncer­ti­fied and low-paid, that the facil­i­ties are inad­e­quate, and that the edu­ca­tion received is of low qual­ity. How­ever, there is no rea­son to believe that the low-cost pri­vate schools are in gen­eral any worse than the pub­lic schools in these regards . . . keep reading.

The book. HT: Kevin Grier.