[quote=AN]…..What’s interesting is, we’re spending ~$10k/student while other countries average around ~$7k. So spending more probably won’t fix this problem.[/quote]
That was obvious all along, AN. We have horrible problems in large segments of our education system and, more generally, in how we raise some of our children.
In the US, education is run by a combination of teachers’ unions and politicians. No one should be surprised that the result is unfavorable to many children, yet comes at enormous cost to taxpayers.
South Korea and Finland were highlighted in the program as the highest-achieving countries, with opposite techniques for getting there. South Korea relied on rote drilling for massive amounts of time. Finland relied on uniformly high quality teachers in a homogeneous society with virtually no poverty. In both, education and teachers were treated with the utmost respect, comparable to doctors here in the US.
We won’t solve our education problems here in the US. Why? Because we are a heterogeneous society, complacent about vast segments of the population living in poverty and ignorance, and we respect doctors a lot more than teachers.
