Crazy kind of loving there...

Segregation Map of Kansas City, Missouri, Census Year 2000, by the photographer Eric Fischer; each dot represents 25 people, color-coded by race: pink is White, blue is Black, orange is Hispanic and Latino, and green is Asian.

Somebody at Kos posted a discussion of a Very Disturbing Report on Education today, produced by the Cato Institute and proving or purporting to prove that increased school funding doesn't help to improve educational outcomes. Oh, dear, I thought, and took a look at the report itself—Money and School Performance: Lessons from the Kansas City Desegregation Experiment by one Paul Ciotti—to see if I could find some holes in its methodology.

Well, I didn't need to worry myself about that in particular, since it turns out that the thing was published in 1998, that's 14 years ago, and actual scholars have had time to identify all the holes already. And have done so, too.

Ciotti's report is the story of the lawsuit filed in 1977 by the Kansas City Board [jump]