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More money doesn’t make better schools
- vr46 5y agoThe results also suggest we’re unable to track or assess things outside of the ‘harmonized learning outcome’ such as how to treat others, attention for special needs, extra-curricular activities, support for sport, music, drama, etc etc.
- rahimnathwani 5y agoHis point about 1:1 tutoring not being possible with current funding assumes everything else stays the same. For kindergarten, an hour of 1:1 reading tuition per week would be plenty. Use the rest of the time to play/whatever under supervision. This could be achieved with much less money than public schools currently spend. I wrote about this in response to an HN comment earlier this week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28309262 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28309262
- rahimnathwani 5y agoThe OP is a rehash of this article from a few days ago: https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/is-the-conventional-wisdom-on-educational https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/is-the-conventional-wis...
- fuzzfactor 5y agoTo make better schools, hasn't it been proven for centuries that higher admission standards remain head & shoulders above other approaches?
- cafard 5y agoThat must be why I seem to know so many people who send their kids to Sidwell Friends or Washington International School.