Thread by @Noahpinion

1/Just pointing at increasing school spending as evidence that school spending is ineffectual seems wrong to me:

motherjones.com/kevin-drum/202…

2/First of all, the premise is always that our schools haven't gotten any better, but like...what if they have

3/American IQ scores have been going up for decades, and we have tons of evidence that education boosts IQ, so that suggests we're doing something right

journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…

4/And our best econometric evidence says that school spending has a positive effect on schools in poor and Black/Hispanic neighborhoods.

nber.org/papers/w25368

5/Furthermore, a lot of the stuff we've increased spending on - guidance counselors and such - might improve student outcomes in ways that test scores don't even measure, like career paths, healthy behavior, etc.

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

6/So every time people say "Look how much we've increased spending, and it hasn't gotten us anywhere", I just want to say: YES IT HAS. And if you're going to say school spending is ineffectual, please bring more than a time-series graph.

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