Posted on 06/25/2013 1:21:18 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The United States spends more than other developed nations on its students' education each year, with parents and private foundations picking up more of the costs.
Despite the spending, U.S. students still trail their rivals on international tests.
The United States spent more than $11,000 per elementary student in 2010 and more than $12,000 per high school student. When researchers factored in the cost for programs after high school education such as college or vocational training, the United States spent $15,171 on each young person in the system — more than any other nation covered in the report.
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It also gets the least and worse return on that investment.
Teachez Unionz
May I have butter on that? Spreads the bread!
The truth, as reasoanble people know, is that you can spend next to nothing on an intelligent student who wants to learn and he or she will succeed, and you can spend buckets of money on students who either don't want to learn or have little talent and they will fail. The Kansas City School Project is proof of that.
www.Kansas City School Experiment.com
For decades critics of the public schools have been saying, "You can't solve educational problems by throwing money at them." The education establishment and its supporters have replied, "No one's ever tried." In Kansas City they did try. To improve the education of black students and encourage desegregation, a federal judge invited the Kansas City, Missouri, School District to come up with a cost-is-no-object educational plan and ordered local and state taxpayers to find the money to pay for it.
Kansas City spent as much as $11,700 per pupil--more money per pupil, on a cost of living adjusted basis, than any other of the 280 largest districts in the country. The money bought higher teachers' salaries, 15 new schools, and such amenities as an Olympic-sized swimming pool with an underwater viewing room, television and animation studios, a robotics lab, a 25-acre wildlife sanctuary, a zoo, a model United Nations with simultaneous translation capability, and field trips to Mexico and Senegal. The student-teacher ratio was 12 or 13 to 1, the lowest of any major school district in the country.
The results were dismal. Test scores did not rise; the black-white gap did not diminish; and there was less, not greater, integration.
Throwing money at the public schools is just graft. Insiders and Mafioso have their hands in everything, from the food in the lunchroom to paper towels in the restrooms to pencils, paper and cleaning services.
I know, the answer is never because it doesn't further the NEA agenda of high pay and great working conditions for teachers, nor does it meet the elitists goal of dumbing down the masses...
Here's a recent FR thread that leads me to question how so-called education dollars are actually being spent.
Fed Shocked To Find Student Loans Used For Anything But To Learn
Using their numbers, each classroom cost taxpayers $379K per year.
Which only means that all of the spending on "education" is just to provide "jobs" for more liberal unionistas to indoctrinate our kids in liberalism.
Good use of our tax dollars.
Read: tests prepared by America bashers.
Left wing party hacks bash US education so they can justify more spending, and right-wing hacks bash US education to justify cutting federal spending. None of them gives a damn about education.
Until they want to hire someone who knows something --that's when everyone across the political spectrum makes it a point to always hire a graduate from a US university. That's when they all come back to reality on the Planet Earth. Fact is that the American worker's productivity is way ahead of those of any other country on the planet; no way we can say Americans are uneducated.
Most Americans have graduated from high school and have had some college. Most foreigners haven't. Most country's school systems are two-tiered --ruling class kids go to college and most kids cut the trades and get a weaker back ground in math, science, and communication. Most American high schools use the same math, science, and English teachers for all students. Think: there are far more foreigners coming to the US for an education than there are Americans fleeing overseas for studies. There's a reason.
Maybe anyone here who really thinks American education is bad needs to consider brain surgery with a doctor that graduated in Botswana.
Good points.
America still has the best engineering and science schools in the world.
thanks!
[breathing into a paper bag...]
Fantastic post.
Give me a white board, some markers, a good curriculum and access to a decent library and I’ll give you a crop of excellent students. :)
Cost, probably in the neighbourhood of 12k a year. And I can teach 4, 5 classes. So, say, 100 students at 12k/ a year is about a hundred bucks per student. Double that for your building and debt costs and yer good to go.
Why is he hating on Botswana?
In a class of 600 doctors from yale, you know what you call the 600th - Doctor.
Maybe why there are so many deaths in hospitals in the US as well.
Actually it did, the article said--
...When researchers factored in the cost for programs after high school education such as college or vocational training, the United States spent...
--and Medical schooling is college level. I take it you're not booking a flight to Gaborone International for brain surgery and that you do in fact have more respect for grads of US universities. Understand that the vast majority of these highly educated people you respect did their pre college studies ALSO in the US.
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