Public Education in the United States Behind that of Europe

This article states that there isn’t a direct correlation between U.S. government spending in public education and student achievement. National graduation rates and achievement scores are flat, while spending on education in the U.S. has increased more than 100 percent since 1971. Similar to what Goldin proposes in The Race between Education and Technology where he states “the American system can be characterized as open, lacking in universal standards…the European system, in contrast, was generally closed, with uniform standards…”, John Stossel says that American schools don’t perform as well as schools in other countries because they are government monopolies. Monopolies don’t have much incentive to compete. However, in Europe, the government funds education at many different kinds of schools--but if a school can’t attract students, it goes out of business. Although America used to pride itself in its innovative approach to schooling, it is now lagging behind other countries.

http://abcnews.go.com/2020/Stossel/story?id=1500338#.Tt3FDhzPf5k