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 (DIR) Post #AsTcDtokq7EQTN2VY8 by alfiekohn@sciences.social
       2025-03-26T12:00:52Z
       
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       Can we please, once and for all, drive a stake through the heart of the conservative claim (by Eric Hanushek and others) that more money for schools doesn't, on balance, yield better results? https://www.chalkbeat.org/2019/8/13/21055545/4-new-studies-bolster-the-case-more-money-for-schools-helps-low-income-students/My favorite quote on this topic is in Jonathan Kozol's book "Savage Inequalities": "Spending money to reduce class size is 'not a very prudent investment strategy,' said [conservative education polemicist Chester] Finn, who sent his daughter to Exeter, where class size is 13.”
       
 (DIR) Post #AsTcDv1YM140DM2F8a by divVerent@blob.cat
       2025-03-27T10:11:06.771954Z
       
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       @alfiekohn It is difficult. Lower class sizes DO improve results significantly. And so do better qualified (and thus higher paid) teachers, and so do teachers who actively stop bullying and other inter-student problems.But also, education in the US is much more expensive than in, say, Germany (and yes, when including the taxpayer funded part on both sides), but does not yield better results. So something is indeed off.But this is not solvable by just taking away money and seeing what happens. This requires looking at the systemic causes of this difference - precisely the job a Department of Education could take. Oh wait…