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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (747569)	8/14/2006 11:09:57 AM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Christ man , score results have been in the papers many times, posted here many times. What is it with you? you read something and forget it the next day? no wonder you are a liberal. Short term memory lost.

To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (747569)	8/14/2006 11:18:49 AM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

PUBLIC EDUCATION PRODUCTIVITY DECLINES 71% IN 35 YEARS - while spending rises, quality declines - productivity Education productivity is a ratio that compares national education quality output with inflation-adjusted spending per student. The left chart shows the dramatic 71% decline in education productivity over the past 3 ½ decades. That's because SAT scores, a long-term measure of quality, fell over this period despite record increases in real spending per student. (data table below, including explanation why this chart stops at 1994 because SAT testing criteria were made less rigorous). The chart decline would be even steeper if we added (to secondary education costs) remedial course costs in colleges required due to poor high school quality output - - which ought to be done for accountability. ``The quality of schooling is far worse today than it was in 1955,'' Nobel laureate Dr. Milton Friedman recently wrote in the Washington Post. Note the chart's 1960 data point and the trend thereafter. With this in mind, think of this: "Since 1962, when teachers were first allowed to unionize, the public school system has been a system that benefits and answers to the producers of education, not to the consumers. 88% of America's schools are government schools, and 75% of the teachers are union members." John Fund, Editorial Board Wall Street Journal, May 1998 Imprimis volume 27, #5. And, as the president of the American Federation of Teachers recently said: "I will begin to care about the quality of children's education in this country when they start paying union dues." Al Shanker, union president.