USA: More $$$ spent on schools does NOT equal better results
More money spent on schools does NOT equal better results, 40-year study finds
The performance of 17-year-olds has been essentially stagnant across all subjects despite a near tripling of the inflation-adjusted cost of putting a child through the K-12 system
There has been essentially no correlation between what states have spent on education and their measured academic outcomes
The correlation between spending and academic performance changes over the past 40 years for all 50 states is 0.075
A higher SAT participation rate generally means that more lower-achieving students are taking the test, which drives down the average scores
College fees have soared over the past 30 years
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The costs of sending students through school have more than tripled in real terms over the past 40 years, yet despite the billions of extra taxpayers dollars being spent, the results students are achieving show almost no improvement.
Andrew Coulson who conducted the study believes the answer is simple - that there's no discernible correlation between spending and results.
'What we’ve done over the past 40 years hasn’t worked,' said Coulson, director of the Center For Educational Freedom at the CATO Institute.
No difference: there is no discernible correlation between spending and outcomes
Trending: The average performance change nationwide has declined three percent in mathematical and verbal skills. Moreover, there's been no relationship, effectively, between spending and academic outcomes
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Rob Nikolewski who has been looking at the study noted in Watchdog.org that while spending has just about tripled in inflation-adjusted dollars and the number of school employees has almost doubled since 1970, reading, math and science scores for students have remained stagnant.
'That is remarkably unusual,' Coulson wrote in his study. 'In virtually every other field, productivity has risen over this period thanks to the adoption of countless technological advances — advances that, in many cases, would seem ideally suited to facilitating learning.
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Such a study may well have parents asking if spending has no affect then why do students at private schools, which charge tuition, perform better than students in public schools?
National studies have shown the average per-pupil spending in the U.S. exceeds $11,000.
The Cato report assumes that education money is spent the same way it was in the 1960s and ’70s, according to New Mexico Watchdog.
Schools provide many more special services in education such as after-school programs. Also, the technology in classroom has altered with computers and electronic smart-boards an every day part of the teaching process.
Well in the US you have to pay for you ****ing education meanwhile in countries in Europe its all free. If your parents dont have a high education then you wont either. ****ed up, but good luck with all the guns and stuff bye
Well in the US you have to pay for you ****ing education meanwhile in countries in Europe its all free. If your parents dont have a high education then you wont either. ****ed up, but good luck with all the guns and stuff bye
Well in the US you have to pay for you ****ing education meanwhile in countries in Europe its all free. If your parents dont have a high education then you wont either. ****ed up, but good luck with all the guns and stuff bye
Well in the US you have to pay for you ****ing education meanwhile in countries in Europe its all free. If your parents dont have a high education then you wont either. ****ed up, but good luck with all the guns and stuff bye
This is a whole ****ing lie. Who told you this crap
I cannot at the fallacy and ignorance coming from your keyboards.
Well in the US you have to pay for you ****ing education meanwhile in countries in Europe its all free. If your parents dont have a high education then you wont either. ****ed up, but good luck with all the guns and stuff bye
That's why I'm glad I go to a private school and it's kind of dumb that families who don't have children enrolled in public schools still have to pay taxes that fund the school system. Oh well.
There are many things wrong with the US public education system, but compared to other countries it is not doing that bad (Latin America and Africa say hi). Inequality is the basis of the problem in my opinion. In an upper-middle class area a school is more likely to be nice, have more sports and extracurricular activities and offer a lot of AP and IB subjects and have tutoring programs, foreign language immersion programs, exchange programs, field trips, better equipped labs and facilities, interactive classrooms. Go to a school where most people are poor and you won't find the same things. Plus teachers are paid so miserably and they are not qualified enough at times since they only have a bachelor's degree. And many students have issues because they come from problematic social and family environments and there might be not support in the school, so they don't care about the school, they drop out. Also I have read about the Finnish system and I love how they encourage participation rather than competition and they tell every child that they can be what they want to be. Not everyone is going to be a doctor or a chemical engineer but I feel like there needs to be a push for more vocational professions instead of a big percentage of high school drop outs going to the military or working at Taco Bell. There are so many issues here....BUT teenage pregnancy is going down and college enrollment is relatively high. There are scholarships for underprivileged students.
