More, more, more, of course.
The out-of-tune lyrics of the old Andrea True Connection hit drifted through my head as I read the following in the latest print version of U.S. News:
More money. More teachers. More time. The oldest recipe for school improvement is “more.”
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“More” is a winning political strategy. It avoids hard choices or the need to identify waste. But excellence requires finding ways to accomplish more rather than to get more. Plus, we have tried the “more” strategy. Largely because of a hiring binge that has boosted teacher ranks 50 percent faster than enrollment over 35 years, school spending has skyrocketed. After inflation, spending has tripled in four decades. The results? Not so great.
I suspect Terry Stoops would agree with this assessment from Frederick Hess, director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute.
For more on Terry’s prescription for the ills that plague North Carolina’s public schools, click here.
