On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 4:24 PM, Larry C. Lyons <larrycly...@gmail.com> wrote: > > You do not understand, the fact is that the US is not throwing money > at a problem. If anything, these stats show its almost the opposite. > Given how little we spend on education we're getting a lot for what is > spent. So a simple overlay chart, average educational attainment > scores by average amount spent per capita. I think it will show quite > nicely my point.
Based on the next paragraph, I think we are on the same page, just stating it differently. > > The last few sets of education reforms were ideologically driven, or > in some cases ideologically driven out. What I would like to see are > reforms based on empirical data. Unfortunately many of those reforms > based on research generally were either rescinded by parties in power, > or pressure groups prevented the applications of those reforms through > media and grass roots/Astroturf pressure. Yep, I think NCLB is a huge fucking waste or time, resources and money - and - surprise, surprise, did not fix the problem (I think it actually made it worse). > > Ideally I would like to see something like a non-partisan > congressional commission, like the 9/11 commission, that would survey > all the scientific literature, accept testimony, position papers etc. > The commission's purpose would be come up with a series of reform > proposals that the federal government would implement. I agree. My point was, its stupid to just throw money at the problem without any reforms. Without reforms, we are just throwing good money after bad. -- Scott Stroz --------------- You can make things happen, you can watch things happen or you can wonder what the f*&k happened. - Cpt. Phil Harris http://xkcd.com/386/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:324726 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
