"So despite being the seventh richest nation in the world, why do U.S. schools lag behind? It's clear that some states are on par with countries that are much, much more economically burdened. One reason is America's repeated failure to invest in education. According to the US News, federal funding for education has fallen drastically. Congress has cut funding for K-12 education by nearly 20 percent since 2011—five times more than overall spending cuts."
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When we let politics trump science, people are needlessly put in harm's way. http://arstechnica.com/science/2017/01/self-censoring-fears...
I'd like school achievement and race mapped by district. I bet we would see all sorts of interesting correlations.
ReplyDeleteEric Mintz The big correlation is that school spending is from local taxes, so schools in poor neighborhoods suck compared to rich neighborhoods.
ReplyDeleteMy old HS in Brooklyn was in the bottom 10%, the one in my rich suburb is in the top 10%. That's not a coincidence; it's by design.
Centralize spending and increase it.
Is this crazy offensive? If so, crazy offensive to whom?
ReplyDeleteI just found it interesting, if anything.
Patrik Hanson I assume it's crazy offensive to all those countries who find it distasteful to be compared to US public school systems.
ReplyDeleteSteve S I think you're correct. When I learned that schools/education are mostly funded through real estate taxes, I was a mystified. Wouldn't schools in poorer neighborhoods be underfunded and wouldn't it be hard to improve education in these cities/counties?
ReplyDeleteAlso, only the folks that pay these taxes directly do feel the cost of education directly and homeownership tends to be lower in poorer neighborhoods. Then the folks who actually pay the real estate taxes directly often don't live there.
Centralization of taxes/spending of education, maybe not on a federal level but at least on state level, seems like a good idea.
Anton Spaans State level first. Then we'll see what else we can do.
ReplyDeleteSweet, now I don't have to visit Kyrgyzstan - I live there!
ReplyDeleteBut if we invested in public education, how could we continue to elect Republicans?
ReplyDeleteCraig Froehle yep, I sure would NOT like to be mentioned in the same sentence with the US... Greetings from FINLAND.. where we have 100% literacy rate for adults...
ReplyDeleteEila Gomez Illiteracy isn't the core problem in America. It's miseducation, such as political indoctrination taught under the cover of history and religious indoctrination as science.
ReplyDeleteSteve S I know... but that would be a start...
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