Education is the silver bullet. Education quality is driven by teacher quality. We pay teachers ½ or ¼ of what we pay other critical professionals. Lots of potentially great teachers decide they'll be happier elsewhere. I don't see how you solve that without spending more money.
Which is closest to your opinion on K-12 education spending in the U.S.? > Underfunded, relative to what's needed for a decent education > Overfunded, throwing money at it is not a real solution > About right, the system may have some problems but it generally works
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This is a really common belief, but the median teacher salary in the U.S. is $58,950, which is just about flush with the median household income across all Americans
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Where’s the “poorly allocated” button?
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Poor study design
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needs an option for 'about the right amount of money is being spent, but it's being spent on all the wrong things'
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as an exchange student I was a senior in an American high school (Kansas). I was surprised how much money was poorly allocated. e.g. - Brand new math books (at that level, calculus does not change) - multi thousand $ touchboards - An AC that made people wear sweaters in summer
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Voted "about right" but disagree with "the system generally works" - the amount is fine, but it is put to suboptimal use. For anything above K-12, I'd say overfunded.
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I said "under" but I'm not counting spending on charter schools which are mostly a scam despite the good ones
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funding distribution is grossly distorted by local tax revenue differences but the problems in underfunded districts are not only lack of funds and the problems in overfunded districts are not only about wrong priorities
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Funding is less important that designing incentives for students to learn; the available job opportunities and cost of college have a larger effect on incentives than teachers.
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