Comments on: A Mind is An Expensive Thing to Waste http://jaypgreene.com/2010/01/31/a-mind-is-an-expensive-thing-to-waste/ With Help From Some Friends Sat, 26 May 2012 22:17:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Brian Gottlob http://jaypgreene.com/2010/01/31/a-mind-is-an-expensive-thing-to-waste/#comment-8374 Tue, 02 Feb 2010 02:40:55 +0000 http://jaypgreene.com/?p=5230#comment-8374 Not really an epiphany but an excellent effort to monetize the aggregate impacts of educational achievement (or lack thereof) nonetheless.

Because there is general agreement on relationship between educational achievement (the quality of human capital) and economic performance the real research frontier exists in monetizing te aggregate impacts of educational reforms, a more difficult task. The impact of reforms on test scores gets us, at best, only half way.

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