We keep hearing the beating drum of more money for education, and apparently it works because people are not well informed. Check out the following two graphs from Education Next-PEPG Survey, published in Education Next‘s Winter issue.
The first is related to school spending.
The next graph is related to teacher pay:
Question – how much would you guess an average teacher makes a year?
HT: Intercepts
Tags: education spending, public education, teacher pay
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