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Policymakers must do their homework : Comments
By Andrew Leigh, published 20/5/2005Andrew Leigh argues that the reason student standards have fallen while education expenditure has increased has to do with the quality of teachers.
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Lets for instance assume that 10% of the best people who once entered teaching as a profession don't do it these days. If these people increase the scores of students in their classes a full 20%, then the overall difference in students scores is only going to be 2% (i.e., 20% of 10%). Such small differences clearly don't explain why scores of students have been dropping in Australia yet increasing in other countries.