A New York Times article recently caught my attention. The article was about the test score results on an international standardized test for math, science, and reading given to teenagers in sixty-five different countries, including China and the USA. Our kids were not number one. They weren't even in the top ten.
The significance of our failing education system is something that should be of great concern to us as a nation moving forward into the 21st century, but I'm afraid it will be overlooked by most people.
Here are the reference articles I used to make the video:
Huffington Post article about empire in decline by Alfred McCoy
Test scores from Shanghai stun educators
Rand Paul on eliminating the Department of Education
RobertReich.org – video on public education