Blog Juice for Educational Technology

A new Standard and Poor’s report has “has not taken a position on the 65 Percent Solution,” but in fact “has found a lack of empirical evidence linking higher student achievement with higher proportional spending levels.” We’ll take that.

The Standard & Poor’s analysis suggests “that the specific ways that schools use their instructional dollars may have as much, if not more, to do with student achievement as the percentage of dollars spent on the classroom.” Press release here. Full report in PDF here.