I'm beyond stunned. I've spent all this time worrying about the deficit and our economy, thinking it was the critical issue facing the nation.
I was wrong. The most critical issue is education. Just look at the latest round of international testing in science, math, and reading. The Programme for International Student Assessment tested 15-year-old students around the world.
You probably know that students in Shanghai crushed the rest of the world, outscoring everyone in all categories by a wide margin. What you may not have heard is that kids in 28 nations outscored American kids in math. We're behind 15 nations in reading and 20 nations in science.
We're not just broke, we're undereducated too!
How did we let this happen? How long can we let this go on?
Source: http://www.pbs.org/nbr/blog/2010/12/forget_taxes_and_the_deficit_w.html
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