[USS Alaska]

According to the most recent OECD figures (2007), the Koreans spent $5,437 per primary-school pupil; we spent $10,229. For education as a whole, the Koreans spent $7,325 per pupil; we spent $14,269. They not only “outpace our kids in math and science”; they do it by only spending half as much

Herein lies the real problem, teachers unions getting too much money for shoddy performance all the while protecting the shittiest amongst them.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

The problem with American education is the same as the problem with Soviet agriculture: It’s a producer controlled monopoly that demands ever greater inputs and returns ever fewer and shoddier outputs.