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Money is irrelevant. Many of the worst schools in America are the most lavishly funded.
by a8da6b0c91d 12y ago
Money is irrelevant. Many of the worst schools in America are the most lavishly funded.
- ejstronge 12y agoI find this very hard to believe - are there data available on the correlation between funding and school performance? Also, how long has this correlation occurred?
- Glide 12y agoLiving in NOVA it's hard to ignore the issues of DC public schools. A quick search gives this: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/05/23/the-dramatic-inequality-of-public-school-spending-in-america/ http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/05/23/t... And googling "DC public school spending" gives a figure closer to 29K per student.
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- ejstronge 12y agoThe article you link indeed shows there's surprising spending levels in some states but this doesn't quite link spending to school performance. I'm only making this statement because it's sometimes easy to cite a correlation to support a point when there's no causal relationship. Thus, irrespective of how much a school spends per-pupil, it's critical to relate spending to educational outcomes. You could imagine a case, for example, where schools on the East Coast necessarily spend more than schools on the West Coast to maintain old buildings (I'm not saying this is the case, of course).
- tokenadult 12y agoYour statement is an exaggeration, but the essential point is correct that many American school systems get poor results for the dollars they spend. Here is data on the issue: http://educationnext.org/when-the-best-is-mediocre/ http://educationnext.org/when-the-best-is-mediocre/
- davidgerard 12y agoI'm sure the graph is not strictly monotonic. But are you actually claiming the curve isn't that way?