Re:Is education no longer the ‘great equalizer’?
by xyzzyz on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @03:36PM
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> I am just pointing out that in New Zealand the main correlation for average student ability is their home, not their school.
Right. Whatever the casual mechanism is at play, increasing funding of schools is not going to make much of a difference for the kids -- it will, though, for employees of the school systems.
In New Zealand there is a negative correlation.
The performance of schools in New Zealand is very strongly correlated with “the decile” which is how wealthy the area where the school is located (i.e. how well off the parents are correlates with how well their children do academically).
The schools in areas of poverty get more state funding, but the results at those schools are very poor, because the parents are poor, and poor parents often cause poor students (edit: cause is the wrong word here, sorry).
Our government otherwise funds schools per student at a fairly flat per capita rate, so there is not the variation in school funding (ignoring private schools) like that which occurs in the US.
I am just pointing out that in New Zealand the main correlation for average student ability is their home, not their school.