Re: The Education Function

Spike Jones (spike66@ibm.net)
Mon, 07 Dec 1998 21:04:32 -0800

> > Michael Lorrey wrote: I had the highest SAT score
> in my high school class, that year my state had the highest average SAT scores
> in the nation (while having one of the highest levels of participation as well).
> GET THIS: That same year our state ranked at the bottom of all states in per
> capita spending on education.

you would then be from north dakota? montana? idaho? there has been much made of this high score/low spending observation. are you familiar with hernstein and murray's work? spike