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To: one_less who wrote (1518)	3/22/2005 8:45:36 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (2) of 5290

I'm sorry, the devil made me do it. Message 21158284 I think if we spent 10 times as much on education, people would be a lot smarter in this country. nces.ed.gov From 1970 to 2001, expenditures on education in the US went from $34M to $348M- -more than 10 times in current dollars. Anybody care to stand up and claim American students are 10 times smarter now than in the 1970s? Anyone who does has to explain this: nces.ed.gov SAT scores over the interval haven't risen; they've fallen. siliconinvestor.com X thinks they be "better educated"; she's certainly welcome to come here and defend that POV. Ish seems to doubt that; the statistics bear him out. Now the argument might be made that inflation has to be taken into account; that $34M in 1970 would buy more than $348M in 2001. Now I have a real problem with the reliability of inflation calculations over long periods of time, but let's do it anyway. data.bls.gov THAT says $34M in 1970 would be worth $155M now, so, adjusted for inflation, we're only spending a bit over twice as much now. Population increase, you say? nces.ed.gov That says we graduated 2.589M HS grads in 1970 and 2.685M in 2001. That should take care of that "a bit over" twice as much and make it twice as. Sure did accomplish a lot by doubling expenditures, eh? More support: mwhodges.home.att.net This shows declining educational achievement in spite of a 3.5X increase in funding (I SAID I didn't trust inflation calculations spanning long periods!). In Advanced Math U.S. students scored next to last, world-wide. In Physics the U.S. scored at the very bottom of the heap. Here we go again: nationalreview.com You want more, let me know. Joe, how you doing up there in Canada? Anyone think that pouring more money into an already bloated bureaucracy isn't the answer?

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