I think this point is something that's often missed in the political dogma on education. At least by PISA scores many of the countries now beating us spend sub

I think this point is something that's often missed in the political dogma on education. At least by PISA scores many of the countries now beating us spend substantially less on education than we do. For instance Vietnam is now ahead of the US in math and science. In fact, they're 8th in the world in science. Their purchasing power parity GDP/capita is $6,925 ($2,305 nominal) and a total of 6.6% of that goes to education. That's $450/capita, parity compensated. In the US we spend 5.6% of $61,687 per capita which is $3455/capita - north of 700% greater than Vietnam's spending, parity adjusted. You can't just spend your way to people valuing and embracing education. - [1] Convenient listing of the 2015 PISA results - [2] List of nations by percent of GDP spent on education, one click away from conversion to parity adjusted $/capita [1] - http://www.businessinsider.com/pisa-worldwide-ranking-of-math-science-reading-skills-2016-12 http://www.businessinsider.com/pisa-worldwide-ranking-of-mat... [2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_spending_on_education_%28%25_of_GDP%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_spending_...