EAST LANSING, Mich. - Michigan State University has received a
$5 million grant to train education researchers in economics,
according to a press release from the university and Education
Week magazine.
The doctoral program will focus on methods of studying
longitudinal data to show whether and how school funding, class
size, teachers' educational training and other factors relate to
student performance, the release said.
"There is a need to improve these methods so the educational
community can get better estimates of the associations between
policy variables and student outcomes," Robert Floden, a
professor in the College of Education, said in the release. The
program will bring together faculty with expertise in K-12
education, economics, labor, quantitative measurement and
teacher education.
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SOURCES:
Michigan State University, "MSU trains scholars to tackle
educational issues - with economics," June 16, 2009
http://news.msu.edu/story/6460/
$5 million grant to train education researchers in economics,
according to a press release from the university and Education
Week magazine.
The doctoral program will focus on methods of studying
longitudinal data to show whether and how school funding, class
size, teachers' educational training and other factors relate to
student performance, the release said.
"There is a need to improve these methods so the educational
community can get better estimates of the associations between
policy variables and student outcomes," Robert Floden, a
professor in the College of Education, said in the release. The
program will bring together faculty with expertise in K-12
education, economics, labor, quantitative measurement and
teacher education.
_______
SOURCES:
Michigan State University, "MSU trains scholars to tackle
educational issues - with economics," June 16, 2009
http://news.msu.edu/story/
Isn't this interesting? $5 Million bucks to TRAIN researchers to study data about schools. Isn't it bad enough that we never DO anything productive with the information the researchers come up with let alone now we want to teach those researchers to research better? Just think what homeschooler families could do with just a portion of that $5 Million towards educating their kids. Takes me about 5 minutes to figure out when something isn't working for one of mine...no paid researchers needed!! Sure, I'm sure I waste some time giving them curriculum that doesn't work and trying to manipulate it so that it does, but I figure we still spend more time learning than the average public school spends so no need to fret.
I just tried figuring out how many homeschoolers there are in Michigan to see how that would divide into that $5 Million but tee hee....Michigan doesn't track us! Or so they say. I bet they have a pretty darn good idea....If PETA can track the fly that Obama kills, Michigan can track us homeschoolers...
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