Educational spending does not automatically translate into higher achievement. If you break it down by demographic group, I am sure that lower educational scores are better explained — nature vs. nurture debate. Cultural factors play a big role. What ever the cause, our low performing educational system does not help.
You can lead a horse to water....
The top 4 locations are all in China.
I know for a fact that Chinese teacher-student ratios happen to be on the order of 60 students per classroom, or more. And this is in the good schools, as well as the not-so-good (by their standards, not by ours). And the teachers are not highly paid. And the teachers do not go home at 3pm. And the teachers do not get a summer off.
Liberals lie. And when they get tired of lying, they lie down for awhile before getting up to lie some more.