“Jay Greene’s “Education Myths” documents in detail the truth that there is no direct correlation between funds expended and student test scores. Those who continually cry that public schools are being starved financially, that class size is crucial, and that higher teacher salaries would improve educational quality need to confront Greene’s data to the contrary. Frederick Hess’s “When Unaccountable Courts Meet Dysfunctional Schools” reinforces this thesis, adding that after-inflation school spending has more than tripled since 1960. Hess observes, “America will devote more than $550 billion to public schools during the 2006-07 school year, more than $10,000 for every K-12 student….U.S. spending outstrips Germany, France, and the U.K. by more than 50 percent, and Japan by more than 20 percent, on a per-pupil basis.” And the spending has yielded little. “Math and reading scores for today’s 17-year-olds are about where they were during the Nixon administration.”” –Thomas C. Reeves, historian writing in the History News Network