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To: Debt Free who wrote (154713)	1/21/2011 11:36:23 AM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542563

John - ran across this article that talks about doing more with less Thanks for the link. Good article but it's not about the general proposition or even about municipal government but about k-12 education. Which was especially interesting. A part of the findings are well known--bad schools in poverty areas, high administrative costs (though there are counter arguments here). The biggest problem, however, with these studies is their singular focus on test scores. It's certainly true that tests are the bread and butter of k-12 education. But most of what we want our children to learn in school is not about how to take tests but how to learn how to learn, how to think for themselves, about the values of being human in a diverse and complex world, about connections to past incarnations of the human, and how to express themselves well. Little of that is testable.