[lbo-talk] Joanne Barkin: Poverty and US International School Rankings

Michael Pollak mpollak at panix.com
Mon Jan 31 12:07:42 PST 2011


On Mon, 31 Jan 2011, Doug Henwood wrote:


> E.g., among our old neighbors in the Garden State, total spending per
> pupil in places like Saddle River and Northern Valley are around
> $25,000. Alpine is $29,000. But Fairview and Oradell are under $13,000.

This is completely weird. Alpine doesn't even *have* a high school. And Oradell is a rich white suburb with a fine school (I once dated a girl from there and waltzed in to see a movie in her class).

I suspect this data has fundamental flaws.

Michael



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