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Is the Investment Worth the Outcome?

The amount each of these five countries spends per pupil on their high school education isn’t cheap.The United States, Luxembourg, Austria, Switzerland and Norway have been ranked the top 5 spenders on the world in secondary education.Here they are in order from largest to smallest within the top 5.

However,when we look up the ranking of each of these countries in PISA (Program for International Student Assessment) index, we find some quite surprising results. Here are the top 5 countries in order of first to fifth.
  1. Singapore
  2. Hong Kong
  3. Canada
  4. Japan
  5. China
Here are the rankings of the 5 top spenders
Luxemborg - 34th
Austria - 20th
Switzerland - 8th
Norway -19th
United States - 41st
Here are the spendings of the top 5 countries ranked in PISA
  1. China - $1593
  2. Japan - $8301
  3. Canada- $11,835
  4. Hong Kong - $8,247
  5. Singapore - $7,200

This shows that spending isn’t really proportionate to the quality of education being imparted to young individuals.Maybe we should take a look at what's going on?
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