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Ramona Bessinger on Sowell's "Inside American Education" • Part 2

The Genius of Thomas Sowell

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The Importance of Money in Education

Soledad O'Brien's new book, The New School: How One Classroom Can Change the World, is published by Simon & Schuster. In it, he challenges the notion that more money will lead to better educational outcomes. He says most of the additional money spent never reaches the classroom anyway. More money for colleges usually means more money for research, which simply lures professors away from the classroom,. Our schools are already turning out some of the most expensive incompetence anywhere. Making them still more expensive will not change that.

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