March 20, 2012 12:18PM 

# Why Are There No Googles or Apples in Education? 

By [Andrew J. Coulson](https://www.cato.org/people/andrew-coulson) 

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[![]()](http://www.spotlightonpoverty.org/ExclusiveCommentary.aspx?id=1cfcd4d3-b301-4224-8be0-73c45549ab23)Invent a better way to search the Web and you can conquer the world in a few years. Make better tools for communicating and accessing the Web and it’s the same story. But come up with a better way to teach reading or math and … nada. Excellence routinely “scales up” in every field except education. Why?

Read on … [“Education’s Missing Apple: The Free Enterprise Solution?”](http://www.spotlightonpoverty.org/ExclusiveCommentary.aspx?id=1cfcd4d3-b301-4224-8be0-73c45549ab23)

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[Education](https://www.cato.org/education), [General](https://www.cato.org/general), [Center for Educational Freedom](https://www.cato.org/center-educational-freedom) 

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