$2 trillion and 45 years for naught.

Caroline Baum: 'Investing in education' the same way?

Between 1970 and 2007, inflation-adjusted spending for grades K-12 increased 190 percent without any noticeable improvement in academic achievement, according to Andrew Coulson, director the Center for Educational Freedom at the libertarian Cato Institute in Washington.

"After $2 trillion and 45 years in the business of education, you'd think we'd have something to show for it," Coulson said in a telephone interview.

Instead of better student performance, all that money bought us "a lot more public school employees," he said.
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The federal government has no constitutionally enumerated power to determine how to educate our children. (Tea Party Caucus, take note!) Ever since LBJ's Great Society and the Civil Rights Act, the federal government has taken on the responsibility for providing equality of opportunity through education, Whitehurst told me in a phone interview.
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Liberals think the answer to underperforming inner city schools is more money. Isn't that the definition of insanity, doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result?

Libertarians and conservatives say the solution for improving education is more competition and choice. Who's right?

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