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http://super-economy.blogspot.com/2011/01/education-spending-in-us-states-and.html http://super-economy.blogspot.com/2011/01/education-spending... Looks like t
by jcnnghm 15y ago
http://super-economy.blogspot.com/2011/01/education-spending-in-us-states-and.html http://super-economy.blogspot.com/2011/01/education-spending...
Looks like there is a correlation between test scores and funding, but it's not statistically significant.
According to a review of over 400 studies, "there is not a strong or consistent relationship between student performance and school resources, at least after variations in family input are taken into account," according to a paper published in the journal Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis.
This chart, http://www.heritage.org/static/reportimages/796DF8C7C231CFFE366308277E88CF57.gif http://www.heritage.org/static/reportimages/796DF8C7C231CFFE..., would seem to suggest while per-student education spending has doubled between 1970 and 2005, scores haven't really improved.
Do you have any evidence that increasing funding will improve results?
- leot 15y agohttp://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/13/opinion/13kristof.html http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/13/opinion/13kristof.html Pay particular attention to the McKinsey report results, which found that a teacher that is a standard deviation better than the norm adds $20k to a student's lifetime earnings. Two standard deviations gets you $32k, or $640,000 for a class of 20. Teachers' starting salaries are $39k/year in the U.S., but in educationally top performing places like South Korea and Singapore teachers earn more on average than lawyers and engineers.