> The solution is to make high quality education less scarce and that will come from parents and policy makers improving the schools where they live instead. Go

> The solution is to make high quality education less scarce and that will come from parents and policy makers improving the schools where they live instead. Going in to the debate as a zero sum competition just makes everyone worse off. Whenever there are scarce resources (and even in cases when they aren't), competition will exist. Even in countries where the average person is better educated than those in the United States, the competition only grows exponentially. Just take a look at the local acceptance rates for top-tier Korean universities.