Our Education System Sucks

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64. Kind of Like Healthcare

It’s like healthcare. Spend a fortune and get lousy results. Money is being allocated but it’s going to the wrong things.

I checked out the link you posted. I wish it had more detail. For example is it all education including colleges? If it includes colleges that are for-profit and/or expensive it explains why private spending is so high. I’d like to see K-12 expenditures, the numbers of students by category (public vs private) and the overall spending in those groups.

” The expenditure on education as a % of GDP in the US was 6.4% in 2020, an increase of 3.8% from the previous year. Between 2010-2020, the expenditure on education as a % of GDP in the United States decreased by 16.7%. In 2020, the US spent more than $1.3 trillion on education, with private education expenditure of $354 billion and public education expenditure of $984 billion.