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Burning Cash: How Costly Public School Failures have Charred the American Dream
Burning Cash How Costly Public School Failures have Charred the American Dream Author:Justin Collins Little question exists that the quality of one?s K-12 education largely dictates the path to economic prosperity. Conventional thought has it that school districts home to inadequate outcomes can be suitably strengthened by channeling heavier streams of tax dollars into districts. To date, little evidence has tested the direct impact of instruct... more »ional dollars on SAT scores. Were it the case that educational quality and achievement boosts could be directly ?purchased?, the focus on funding formula becomes well warranted. Based on findings to the contrary, this book argues that the funding battles create the guise of progressive change with nothing to show for it, either in SAT performance levels or collegiate attainment. Until the reform focus is readjusted to what truly matters (the nature of instruction and student engagement across classrooms), the ?more-of-the-same? track record can be expected to persist in our nation?s public schools.« less