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Pollitt, Katha | May 17, 1999 issue

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In this article the author focuses on the spendings on education in the U.S. According to some scholars over the thirty years between 1960 and 1990, per capita student spending in California rose almost 150 percent above inflation even as its schools went from being among the America's best to among its worst. Arguing that money doesn't buy good schools, these scholars have compared the high-cost failed system of Washington, DC, with low-cost North Dakota. On the one hand, a famously corrupt and dysfunctional city with desperately poor students and a population deprived of national political representation, on the other, a tidy rural state with little deep poverty and a small, socially cohesive population.

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EDUCATION -- United States; EDUCATION & state; ECONOMIC history; POPULATION; POLITICAL doctrines; UNITED States
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