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You're conflating two different statistics: US spending per pupil is $12,300 Finland spending per pupil is $9,800 https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/pdf/coe_cm
by throwaway8798 8y ago
You're conflating two different statistics:
US spending per pupil is $12,300
Finland spending per pupil is $9,800
https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/pdf/coe_cmd.pdf https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/pdf/coe_cmd.pdf
If you want to look at per capita spending, the article says the US spends about 668 billion, divided by a population of 321 million, you get about $2080 per capita.
So if you're calculating it that way, the US actually spends _less_ per capita than Finland.
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- rglovejoy 8y ago> If you want to look at per capita spending, the article says the US spends about 668 billion, divided by a population of 321 million, you get about $2080 per capita. > So if you're calculating it that way, the US actually spends _less_ per capita than Finland. Nobody is calculating it that way: the US does not have 321 million schoolchildren.
- jacobolus 8y ago> Nobody is calculating [education budgets per capita] The top-level poster did, in a (hopefully unintentionally) grossly misleading apples-to-oranges comparison: > U.S. spent an average of $12,157 per student [...] Finland's education budget is €2,100 per capita [...] less than 20% of the spending!
- nelsonic 8y agoThanks for the correction.