BLOG WHAT YOU KNOW: Kevin Yaroch discusses the idiocy of No Child Left Behind.
Since he seems to be very against Federal funding for primary and secondary education (for decent reasons), I'd pose the following two questions:
1. If it's true that there are only so many good teachers (which seems true) and throwing money at schools to try and make them magically better doesn't work, what would work?
2. What about state-level increases in funding--the particular one I want to ask about is Proposal A (or B, I can never remember), which capped how much locals could raise their property taxes to pay for their schools, and partially redistribute(d? s?) money from richer districts to poorer districts? Good policy? Bad policy?
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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