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From: tetsuo@media-lab.media.mit.edu.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Tetsuo TeX Naraha)
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Education industry in USA
Keywords: business, education, industry
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Date: 13 May 91 19:26:04 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA
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1. What kind of education business are there at all? (especially education for children up to high school? If there are, how big are they? I've heard somthing about testing industry (like ETS).

2. Obviously, education business is much less common here. Why? 

3. How much money do parents spend for child education. It includes buying books, sending kids to summer school, ... or whatever American parents think to be "educational." I know this country is very diversified, but I would like to know general feeling.

4. The argument that "like any other industry, public regulation and monopoly of by government weaken our educational system. We should introduce more of market machanism and encourage private sector to be involved in child education" is likely to receive what kind of reaction among people?

Any suggestion and information would be very much appreciated.

Tetsuo "Tex" Naraha
MIT Sloan School of Management