??? Re: [CT] Crack on left wing.

[Dan Moran]

I saw a study, 10 years ago or more now, that corrected for immigrants
-- non-English-speaking students -- and then charted educational results
vs. money spent. It was almost perfectly linear. I wish I could find
that study online.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: continuing-time-admin@ralf.org [mailto:continuing-time-
> admin@ralf.org] On Behalf Of Ross Johnson
> Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 7:56 PM
> To: continuing-time@ralf.org
> Subject: RE: ??? Re: [CT] Crack on left wing.
> 
> And yet, in most states, education is the most significant chunk of
> their budget.  I don't think money is the whole story.  The reason
that
> journalists - and most other Americans - can't immediately see that
18x
> the speed of light is an absurd figure for the shuttle to be
travelling
> is because schools make science (and other subjects) boring, as a
> byproduct of their system.  Science class all about memorization of
> science facts, which isn't science at all.  I don't honestly think
that
> throwing money at that problem will do much of anything to solve it.
> 
> Ross
> 
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> > sneadj@mindspring.com
> > Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 4:57 PM
> > To: continuing-time@ralf.org
> > Subject: Re: ??? Re: [CT] Crack on left wing.
> >
> >
> > On 3 Feb 03, at 17:50, William December Starr wrote:
> >
> > > John Franklin <franklin@elfie.org> said:
> > >
> > > > And this is with every president in my memory making education a
> > > > priority.
> > >
> > > We may need to be careful here not to confuse "saying words like
> > > 'education' and 'priority' in the same sentences in speeches" with
> > > "making education a priority."
> >
> > Agreed, a few years ago I ran across figures about per child
> > expenditures for public school education in the US, and it's
> > essentially been dropping since the 1970s, which likely helps
> > explain why so many US high school graduates can't even find
> > China on a map. Promises made w/o funding to back them up are
> > lies.
> >
> > -John Snead sneadj@mindspring.com
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