Bennett and Finn were in full fulmination on the pages of the Washington Times while Gross was spinning statistics and standing logic on its head in Education Week.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Elementary and secondary spending consume less than half total, a figure that ranks us average among OECD nations. No reasonable person does this although otherwise sophisticated people like Bill Schmidt, Al Beaton, and Pat Forgione seem to forget everything they ever learned about research methodology when talking about this study. Twenty-seven percent said they worked more than 35 hours a week. They outscored Cyprus by a single point. In most countries, you're either a student or a worker, not both.