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The Money Myth

Posted by ptucker on Mon, 11/23/2009 - 12:12pm
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Increased funding does not guarantee improved school performance, according to Berkeley education professor W. Norton Grubb in The Money Myth: School Resources, Outcomes, and Equity. Despite lavish funding, he says, many U.S. school districts lag far behind others in the quality of education they offer their students. Those students will consequently be at a steep disadvantage throughout their adult lives.

Grubb cites evidence that schools often waste or misallocate the resources they have, in part because they operate by outmoded top-down management styles in which leadership does not work in tandem with teachers and the communities. With more collective decision making, schools might function more effectively.
Grubb describes new approaches to reorganize schools and school districts to make them more collegial, democratic, and equipped for meeting the challenges of the twenty-first century.