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In reply to the discussion: What can we DU now to help TTW and Yoshi ? [View all]Syzygy321
(583 posts)a good, longterm trial of throwing money into education, as follows:
Suppose the ten states ranked worst in poverty are divided into two cohorts of five. One group receives dedicated federal money - a lot of it- earmarked for the worst-performing counties in that state, and guaranteed to keep flowing for fifteen years. That's long enough to see an entire generation go from HeadStart to HS graduation. Then one could compare data between the federally-funded cohort and the five states that didn't get the boost.
On quick skim I have a problem with your article using lines like this: "None of the states with the highest incarceration rates were in the top half of spending on education.". That's such a half-assed correlation, with so many potential confounding variables, that it smells of someone combing through random data points to prop up an argument.