Education policy is interesting. What drove me to HN was that it had a better community that slashdot - but what drives me now is the quality of the content and

Education policy is interesting. What drove me to HN was that it had a better community that slashdot - but what drives me now is the quality of the content and the discussion, especially for economic ideas which challenge the theories I'm learning. That's quite interesting - education efficiency (or effectiveness as you say) seem to matter a lot. The Pritchett study reported by yummyfajitas (which is someone I highly regard, for his post are generally spot on and instructive) adds to this that increasing education duration has been disproven to have an efficiency on growth (which complements the Romer/Lucas models of growth I'm learning) You further that by disproving the relation between spending and school system results. The conclusion seems to be that while money and time might not be important, the educational content is more important, and country even with few resources or teachers could focus their effort on the right content to maximize their results. Very interesting indeed.