The big noise in education centers is on this claim: if only we had equal funding, we could have equal results. Change agents, social justice warriors, and the Education Establishment complain endlessly about the injustice of some schools and neighborhoods having bigger budgets than others. A good argument can be made that this complaint is dishonest. First of all, there is little correlation between money and quality in education.  Total expenditures on K-12 more than doubled from 1970 to 2005, but reading scores remained flat.  Spend all the billions you want – there is no guarantee that anything will change. Second, failing schools, far from taking constructive action to fix the situation, continue those practices that give the worst results.  It's as if the top educators do not truly want improvement.  They want an excuse for endlessly demanding bigger budgets.  These budgets, by the way, may not make students...(Read Full Article)