Education spending skyrockets year after year, but student achievement stays stagnant

By Andrew Coulson

Published April 29, 2014 4:00am ET

Since the early 1970s, the federal government has tracked the academic achievement of American 17-year-olds.

The results have been essentially flat despite the fact that per-pupil spending has more than doubled, even after adjusting for inflation.

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