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Baker, Bruce D. – National Education Policy Center, 2016
A recent report from Michigan's Mackinac Center asserts that there is little or no relationship between student achievement and marginal increases to what the report characterizes as the already "high" levels of spending in that state. Yet the report never substantiates its assertion that present spending levels are high, on average, or…
Descriptors: Correlation, Academic Achievement, Educational Finance, Regression (Statistics)
Schneider, Mark – American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 2008
American higher education absorbs a larger share of GDP than that of other countries, but it has not produced a particularly high proportion of college graduates. College graduation rates are actually worse than the very low benchmark of high school graduation rates, but higher education institutions are not held accountable. The author writes…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Accountability, High Schools, Graduation Rate