It's troubling that in the USA while inflation adjusted education spending per student has grown more than 150% since 1970...

-Reading scores have remained unchanged
-Math scores have remained unchanged
-Student aged suicide rates have grown significantly
-Student aged obesity rates have grown significantly

What are we doing wrong?

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CountScrofula · 41-45, M

Off the top of my head:

- Doing anything with computers increases costs
- Schools have way more security now
- Accessibility improvements
- High school sports becoming bigger and bigger all the time

None of these have anything to do with quality of education and I bet some things which could affect quality of education (say, working conditions for teachers) aren't part of that cost inflation.