The Lottery and Education: Robbing Peter to Pay Paul?
Despite the promises of some states to use lottery revenues to fund education, they may be guilty of robbing Peter to pay Paul. This study examines the question of revenue fungibility in the case of state lotteries. Using time-series analysis, the research suggests that education is not a big winner in state lotteries. Two different patterns of fungibility emerge from the analysis that are suggestive of underlying budgetary politics.
Reddin, from Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, presented this article as a paper at the Sixth World Congress on Reading, Singapore, August 1976. ■ Based on research done during the sixties by the International Association for the Evaluation of Education Achievement, Benjamin S. Bloom (1974) has stated, "Learning in the schools is, now and for the foreseeable future, likely to be based on verbal instruction to groups using textbooks and other instructional