Notes on Hanushek

Eric Hanushek has been criticized for his methods in the study about the rise in school expenditures and the fall in school achievement for how he weighted different surveys - basically, if you're not interested in statistics, you probably don't care about much more than his findings have been refuted... but not, in my opinion, completely disproven.

This article refers to Hanushek and makes the links between school expenditures and school achivement clear to a non-stat type person. The author also creates a "Teachability Index" (ouch) for different students and uses it to compare teachability to expenditures.

My only worry is that if we assume kids are "unteachable," will we still try and teach them? What will we do to make them more teachable?

"Myths of the Teachers's Union." (Greene, J. FrontPage.com. 1/9/07.)