Since 2012 America has seen a 9 point decline in math and a 14 point decline in reading among 4500 13 year olds. In addition there has been. Marked decline in the number of student taking Math in school (didn’t think that was even an option…)
Maybe China doesn’t produce much fundamental research but look at the names of all those in US universities that are doing fundamental research on solar panels or battery technology and the names will surprise you…lots of Chinese names
It is well known that Americans, following the footsteps of Their politicians, despise knowledge in almost any form and when the facts are clear and obvious they generally prefer conspiracy theories.
America has one of the world’s most expensive education system ( #2 after Luxembourg pop: 675,000) and it continues to fail its clients! Sometime I wonder what is wrong with the Teacher’s Union. I wonder about politicians on the left who seem to think that the only solution to America’s eduction system is more money! Really, it has not worked for 30 years why would it work now?
It is one of the conundrums of policies that politicians will stick to their guns despite undeniable proof that something doesn’t work. Maybe charter schools are part of the solution, but rejecting everything that is not public education is simply idiotic and wrong especially since it’s clear that it doesn’t work!
On the other hand it has been evident for a long time that America’s health care system is a total failure, it’s the most expensive and has really bad outcomes under almost all metrics; still most Americans think it’s good, but then they all gave up math so how could they understand outcome analysis?
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