ITs misleading. Generally these success stories are statistical outliers otherwise they wouldn't be noteworthy or stand out right?
What they generally come down is not money, but rather an exceptional individual or small group of individuals who have the knowledge/experience/luck to make a difference.
Its more of a criticism than anything else to the average people in teaching who themselves don't make much of a difference. They are basically generic teachers that could be replaced by almost anyone.
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Originally posted by sugar and spice
If "throwing money at the schools" isn't the answer, what is? For the record, there have been some very successful efforts in which the "culture" which supposedly doesn't stress education or "success" enough has been overridden by creative and intuitive teachers (the example that comes to mind is a school where a huge number of lower-class Hispanic immigrants learned calculus and did well on the AP calc tests). I don't think that's an issue of money, though, just of method. But money is an easier solution than going out and finding more incredibly dedicated, incredibly talented teachers -- and money can certainly help with finding those people. But that's got more to do with education than it does with the topic at hand.
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