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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
Do you have any data that shows public education funding correlates to higher test scores globally? Do places like China and Korea really spend that much more on education than the U.S.?
http://www.businessinsider.com/us-ed...d-world-2012-1
http://rossieronline.usc.edu/u-s-edu...d-infographic/
There could also just as easily be a correlation between academic achievement and discipline. If you went to a school in Shanghai, would you see the same type of laziness and disruptiveness that you see in North American schools, where in some cases the teachers have almost no control whatsoever? I don't know if that is the case, but "budget cuts" is probably an overly simplistic scapegoat. |
The second one of those links is pretty interesting. It does appear on first glance that the countries who spend more in general perform better than the countries who spend less.
I think the culture in Japan and Korea probably plays a role, but do you think it's possible that the high-levels of racial and cultural homogeneity maybe contributes to keeping education costs down?