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Thursday, February 26, 2004


Improving Student achievement
The Texas Public Policy Foundation, in a new report, offers the following themes for improving student achievement:
  • focus on how funds are allocated rather than on the level of funding
  • recognize there is no scientific way to identify adequate funding and no significant relationship between funding and student achievement
  • strengthen the state's educational accountability system
  • allow local communities to underwrite a greater share of education
  • introduce competition through various means, including greater inter-school, inter-district choice and vouchers.
Though the report focuses on Texas, naturally, there are lessons for everyone.

The report, in PDF format, is here.

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