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The United States of America has been ranked 12 according to the United Nation’s 2008 human development index report in committing towards education by public spending. According the U.S. Department of Education, the federal, state and local governments had spent a total of 786.8 billion dollars in 2006 on education and it is estimated that in the year 2008, about 837.7 billion dollars has been spent. In the school year of 2004-2005, the average expenditure per student was $8700. In an average class of 23, the annual cost to run a class room comes out to be $200,100. It is clear from the statistics that education is expensive in the U.S. Beside all these government spending, it is still the fact that the public education in the U.S. is worse than some of the developing countries. As Anya Kamenetz says in â€Å"DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education† that we produce intellectuals that don’t know the difference between a country and a continent or they don’t know the names of the heads of the key countries. However, the school board, teachers, and pa... Essay -- The United States of America has been ranked 12 according to the United Nation’s 2008 human development index report in committing towards education by public spending. According the U.S. Department of Education, the federal, state and local governments had spent a total of 786.8 billion dollars in 2006 on education and it is estimated that in the year 2008, about 837.7 billion dollars has been spent. In the school year of 2004-2005, the average expenditure per student was $8700. In an average class of 23, the annual cost to run a class room comes out to be $200,100. It is clear from the statistics that education is expensive in the U.S. Beside all these government spending, it is still the fact that the public education in the U.S. is worse than some of the developing countries. As Anya Kamenetz says in â€Å"DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education† that we produce intellectuals that don’t know the difference between a country and a continent or they don’t know the names of the heads of the key countries. However, the school board, teachers, and pa...