Tuesday, December 06, 2011

New Harvard Study Tears Apart Conventional Wisdom On Good Schools

The Business Insider reports:
Two Harvard professors published a study this week that is likely to cause controversy among educators.

Will Dobbie and Roland G. Fryer studied 35 New York charter schools to see whether the traditional models of assessing a school's effectiveness, like class size, were really meaningful. Surprisingly enough, they weren't


Just a reminder, the law of diminishing returns applies to spending on education.