Re:Philip Greenspun's Economy Recovery Plan
by tptacek on Friday January 02, 2009 @05:20PM
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Again: there's more to the funding situation than this factoid. It remains entirely likely that our schools are underfunded, in which case all you're pointing out is one of the causes of that underfunding (that school administration is sapping funds needed for teachers and classrooms).
The empirical analysis is all decidedly negative. The U.S. dramatically increased education spending in the past thirty years with nothing to show for it. On a local level, pretty much every study of increased school funding has shown no impact. From my experience, formal schooling has very little value add on top of what kids learn from their parents, on their own, and on the job.