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a percepção de que por cá as coisas estão 'iguais' às dos 'states'... provavelmente pela mesma ordem de razões...!

muito para lá da mania dos 'resultados' talvez importe que tenhamos bases [dados, investigação abalizada] com que confrontar as agendas públicas e políticas da educação sem preconceitos que [só] 'terminem' no vector económico-financeiro da questão...

ou não será a educação um bem comum e um investimento com retorno a prazo [médio e longo] para o estado-nação...?

até por causa desta notícia.. que não augura nada de bom...!



daqui, com bill gates...

"When you need more achievement, you have to change the way you spend the money. This year, the governors are launching "Complete to Compete," a program to help colleges get more value for the money they spend. It will develop metrics to help show which colleges graduate more students for less money, so we can see what works and what doesn't."


"Over the past few years, due to massive budget deficits, governors, legislators and other elected officials are having to slash education spending. As a result, incredibly, there are at least 30 states in which state funding for 2011 is actually lower than in 2008. In some cases, including California, the amounts are over 20 percent lower.

Only the tiniest slice of Americans believe that we should spend less on education, while a large majority actually supports increased funding. At the same time, however, there’s a concerted effort among some advocates, elected officials and others to convince the public that spending more money on education will not improve outcomes, while huge cuts need not do any harm."

aqui.


para complementar, a partir do relatório citado:

"In the following brief, I discuss selected major studies on three specific topics; a) whether money in the aggregate matters; b) whether specific schooling resources that cost money matter; and c) whether substantive and sustained state school finance reforms matter. Regarding these three questions, I conclude:"


para aceder ao relatório, em pdf...aqui.


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