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In terms of education spending, the US spends more than ever other OECD country other than Luxembourg. The US spends an unusually large share on private educat
by mannerheim 5y ago
In terms of education spending, the US spends more than ever other OECD country other than Luxembourg.
The US spends an unusually large share on private education, but even public education expenditures are greater than that of the UK, France, Korea, and Japan, about the same as the Netherlands, and not that far behind Germany
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- throwawaygh 5y agoYou eventually get there: the US blows a ton of cash on private education, but our public education expenditures -- which this thread has been about up to now -- are unexceptional compared to peer nations. Smack-dab in the middle of the usually pack, really. (And we're also a far less dense country than many of the countries we technically out-spend, which is notable because rural schooling is horrendously expensive on a per student basis.) If you rolled back to 60s level spending, even inflation adjusted, we'd be down the bottom of that distribution.
- mannerheim 5y agoEither way, claiming that education is underfunded is unfounded unless most of the other OECD countries are similarly underfunding education.
- r00fus 5y agoWhy would we even count private education in this discussion? There are no policy controls on private school spend - of course, it's skyrocketing as the rich get richer.
- mannerheim 5y agoThis is moot; as I said, spending on public schools alone in the US is greater than many other OECD countries.
- r00fus 5y agoIt's on-par with OECD countries, per-child.
- mannerheim 5y agoIt's greater than the UK, France, Korea, and Japan. Either way, hardly underfunded.