Eric Hanushek

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anything good come out of Texas? And my response is always, well, just because we're a bunch of cowboys doesn't mean we haven't read Eric Hanushek.

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And then I'll also say, you know, one of the reasons that we passed it, I think sometimes I get these questions of So a little bit sometimes I feel maybe I just have a chip on my shoulder because I'm from Texas.

I get, you know, that part in the Bible when someone goes, can anything good come out of Nazareth? I sometimes I feel that way about Texas when we go and we go to these nationals or can anything good come out of Texas? And my response is always, well, just because we're a bunch of cowboys doesn't mean we've read.

We haven't read Eric Hanushek.

Like, I mean, we called Dr. Hanushek when we were crafting TIA and I worked for the governor's office and we said, will you please just make sure that this does what your research does? Because one of our goals was to get those teachers that are maybe not performing every day for their students to have them choose just a different career path, some other place that they could be successful and that we were maximizing our ability to keep successful teachers.

Everything's gone in the wrong direction, uh, with one exception that we'll talk about in a moment.

The Stanford economist, Eric, uh, Hanushek, put it this way a decade ago, quote, "This productivity decline is remarkable, particularly when compared with dynamic improvements in productivity elsewhere in the US economy.

Schooling outcomes are the same in 2015 as they were four decades before, even though school funding is now several times as high." It's a pretty stark and frankly disturbing window into how much the Civil Rights era has transformed this country and drained our treasury at the same time.

But that's not all.

Older and bigger.

Eric Hanushek and three colleagues, Journal of Human Resources, 2017.

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