Last week, the New York Times reported on new research tying additional resources to academic improvement. While this may be apparent to many, every little bit of research in this area helps as it may not be apparent to policy makers, foolish as that seems:
In the long run, over comparable time frames, states that send additional money to their lowest-income school districts see more academic improvement in those districts than states that don’t. The size of the effect was significant. The changes bought at least twice as much achievement per dollar as a well-known experiment that decreased class sizes in the early grades…