Re:Doctors, Revolt
by danans on Saturday February 24, 2018 @08:20PM
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The US spends double the OECD average on tertiary education (university, etc), but we're just somewhat above average in spending on primary and secondary education [1].
In the US at least, you can't read too much into the averages, because there are so many additional factors that vary by state and between cities. Some states spend far more per pupil than others, although different states can have very different cost-of-living, so comparing absolute numbers in that case doesn't make much sense.
Even within a state, different areas have very different cost of living, and very different hyper-local conditions like concentrations wealth or poverty, that have a big affect on how far each dollar spent goes.
In the US at least, you can't read too much into the averages, because there are so many additional factors that vary by state and between cities. Some states spend far more per pupil than others, although different states can have very different cost-of-living, so comparing absolute numbers in that case doesn't make much sense.
Even within a state, different areas have very different cost of living, and very different hyper-local conditions like concentrations wealth or poverty, that have a big affect on how far each dollar spent goes.
[1] http://www.oecd.org/education/EAG2014-Indicator%20B1%20(eng)...