
U.S. spends more on schools, gets less
The U.S. spends more on education than our competitors, but gets less brains for the buck, writes Dominic Rushe in The Guardian. The US averaged $16,268 a year on education (including college and trade school) in 2014, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s (OECD) report of education indicators, he notes. The global average of $10,759. “Children in countries as diverse as Canada, China, Estonia, Germany, Finland, Netherland, New Zealand and S