RBC I Quick! Pop quiz! More education funding plus smaller class sizes equals better test scores, right?
Wrong. Foreign students outperform Americans on numerous tests: literacy, math, technological knowledge, even everyday skills.
That is despite the fact that the United States spends more than $15,000 a year to educate each student from kindergarten through college—$6,000 more than the average for other economically advanced countries. American schools also reduced average class sizes by over 13 percent…