In a recent twitter
post, US Sec of Education John King
asked: "Are we investing more in punishment than prevention? More in
prisons than in schools?"
Good question. Note also that we are spending far more on
testing than on school libraries. We are investiing in weighing the animal, not
feeding it.
School libraries:
About $10 per student = $500 million http://www.slj.com/2014/04/budgets-funding/sljs-2014-spending-survey-savvy-librarians-are-doing-more-with-less/#_
Data from 2011, 2012:
I could not find more recent data.
Testing: Estimates
range from 1.7 billion (J. Chingos, Brookings Institution, 2012) to 25 billion
(https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2015/03/11/five-reasons-standardized-testing-isnt-likely-to-let-up/)
Add to this: test
prep paid by parents: 13 billion/ (https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/a-21st-century-boondoogle-high-tech-testing/2011/04/11/AF37LZND_blog.html)
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