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Re:Cal State will no longer require math and English placeme... by cyrks on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @12:18PM (#14970793)
While educational spending per student is higher in the US, the travesty is where that money is spent. It's not all spent on the students. If it were, the US wouldn't have the (overall) terrible public educational system that it has.
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Re:Cal State will no longer require math and English placeme... by ouid on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @01:50PM (#14971784)
https://www.cdw.com/shop/products/SMART-kapp-IQ-Pro-65-inter...

I recently visited a school with one of these in every classroom. Every student has a laptop. Every classroom has an unused commercial "curriculum" product in the corner.

And given how much administrators make, and presumably embezzle, I'm not even sure these are bad investments, in a relative sense.

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