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UNREPORTED: The pronounced LACK of correlation between education spending and results
12:09 am on May 19, 2013
Richard Rider

RIDER COMMENT:  One core tenet of public education is this:  "More spending on education provides better results."  It's intuitive, axiomatic -- and dead wrong. Here's the summation of a recent study (one of several) verifying this lack of correlation.…

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