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Having gone to school in MA, I know educational spending ($/student) here is inversely correlated with performance. But I'm not really worried about national
by stillsut 12y ago
Having gone to school in MA, I know educational spending ($/student) here is inversely correlated with performance.
But I'm not really worried about national average, state average, even school average: there just needs to be the opportunity to succeed for individual students, wherever they're located.
- noobermin 12y agoI think it is very much worth caring where the average is. This average person will grow up to become a voter and taxpayer and we need intelligent citizens to vote in competent representatives. Philosopher kings never happened, otherwise, just making sure the smartest get smarter would be okay; we have a democracy and the only way to make it work is to have informed citizens.
- maxerickson 12y agoArbitrary education standards and comparisons to other countries aren't going to change the way people think. (Implicit in the above is the opinion that for loads of national political issues, the biggest thing stopping "the masses" from being informed is that they simply don't care.)