What I am seeing is a purposeful plot to destroy public schools, and to profit from the destruction.

[HiPointDem]

122. what a disingenuous post. what i said was quite clear: you're making invalid comparisons.

i had already said previously i don't have any such theory that student performance is directly related to teacher salaries.

but that's irrelevant to the more fundamental point:

all the 'evidence' you've presented is based on invalid comparisons: invalid both statistically and sociologically.

I'm fairly sure that if i compare teacher salaries *within* india i'll find that the teachers of elite students are paid more than the teachers of poor & rural students.

and i'll bet i'll also find a larger gap between the performance of rural/poor students v. elite students in india than in the US, and that hypothesis is supported by analysis of the very international test results you cite.

I'll also bet that if you compare the top 7% of US students to the top 7% of Indian students (which is a more valid comparison than comparing the top 7% of Indian students to *all* US students, as you did), the two groups would test at least equally well.

I doubt you'd be interested in such a comparison, though, because the results wouldn't suit your agenda.