Several months ago, Clark got very upset when California outlawed homeschooling. Thankfully, however, that decision has been overturned on appeal. As goes the Golden State, so goes the nation, right?

Some 2 million children are home-schooled in our country. The first cousin of Clark's wife -- a former teacher named Courtney -- home-schools her 5 children!

Interestingly, the California court initially ruled that only former teachers would be allowed to home-school. Yet a restriction like that ignores those of us who have the ability to educate one-on-one.

Long ago, Clark worked for a group called Literacy Action that taught non-reading adults how to read. They did it with volunteers who offered one-on-one tutoring to help adults achieve functional literacy. That's where Clark learned the power of one individual working with another.

Parents should have the right to work one-on-one with their children too. Some folks in public education think home-schooled kids are just a bunch of truants. But Clark believes that to be the exception rather than the rule.

To remain competitive internationally, we need to use every tool available to us in the educational world -- be it vouchers, charter schools or school choice.

Clark is particularly excited about what's going on in Finland. In their public schools, teachers are like independent entrepreneurs; there is no centralized curriculum. No "Soviet style" monopoly education like we have here in the United States.

The result of Finland's vision? They have the highest level of education achievement in the world, while spending a relatively paltry sum per child.

Think this discussion doesn't affect you because you don't have kids? Huge amount of your taxes are still spent to support schools that are failures.