Oregon raised spending by 80%, math scores dropped
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Oregon raised spending by 80%, math scores dropped
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Re: Oregon raised spending by 80%, math scores dropped
#2Where is the money going? Isn't the average teacher pay down?
Re: Oregon raised spending by 80%, math scores dropped
#3Why was the headline changed? The story isn't about Oregon.
Re: Oregon raised spending by 80%, math scores dropped
#4All the fiascos in education raise a simple question. Why are big changes not arrived at by first gaining experience with them in in some reduced scale, then spreading the improvements incrementally as they continue to be validated.
And why isn't this experimentation being done all the time, not randomly but competitively/cooperatively between school districts and individual schools? Each making small changes toward getting better results and sharing what they have learned. With most cross adoption happening naturally.
Creating and managing the context for the latter is what people with power should be doing. Not making top-down decisions devoid of the bottom-up wisdom and visible exemplars that big changes need to succeed.
Re: Oregon raised spending by 80%, math scores dropped
#5Where is the money going? Isn't the average teacher pay down?
exactly
had that extra spending gone to pay math teachers the results might be different
Re: Oregon raised spending by 80%, math scores dropped
#6Maybe the Oregon people spent the money on art and music and sports and weren't trying to optimize some third-party academic's budget-to-test-scores efficiency metric.
Re: Oregon raised spending by 80%, math scores dropped
#7What could possible explain this drop over the last ~10 years?
Unrelated: schools with effective phone bans are seeing improved grades and less absences.
Re: Oregon raised spending by 80%, math scores dropped
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Re: Oregon raised spending by 80%, math scores dropped
#9Maybe we should copy what China is doing?
Their class sizes are much higher - 40 kids for 1 teacher. But there is a lot more discipline, the teachers teach only a few classes, spending most of their time on curriculum preparation, and the children have 3 hours of vigorous exercise everyday.
Re: Oregon raised spending by 80%, math scores dropped
#10All the fiascos in education raise a simple question. Why are big changes not arrived at by first gaining experience with them in in some reduced scale, then spreading the improvements incrementally as they continue to be validated. And why isn't this experimentation being done all the time, not randomly but competitively/cooperatively between school districts and individual schools? Each making small changes toward…
Yeah, maybe we should have given a control group of kids infinite doomscrolling before we gave it to all them.