Investing in Education?

It's common to claim that when we spend more and more on education, the results tend to indicate that we've wasted our money. One more depressing set of graphs along those lines comes in looking at the SAT trends over the years Squandering Assessment Test

There are factors that make comparing year-to-year SAT scores imprecise. But the trend clearly reinforces what we should already know: we get almost no return for our education “investment.”

Well, maybe. Or maybe not. But this is data.