Here's a serious threat to US national power - an education system that is failing students: http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2013/12/american-schools-vs-the-world-expensive-unequal-bad-at-math/281983/ …
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Replying to @speechboy71
@speechboy71 Been wondering about this: is volume as important as top level quality? IE our best still better then other country's best 1/22 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @AdamBlickstein
@AdamBlickstein Well that widens inequality, which has pernicious economic effects1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @speechboy71
@speechboy71 Of course. But the idea that US international competitiveness harmed less so perhaps? But agree education striation poisonous2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @AdamBlickstein
@AdamBlickstein One prob is our best and brightest tend to go into fields (finance) that don't contribute to competitiveness@speechboy711 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @emptywheel
@emptywheel@speechboy71 But that widens the inequality gap!1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @AdamBlickstein
@AdamBlickstein No. I'm saying if best and brightest don't go into, say, tech, they're not doing us much good.@speechboy711 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @emptywheel
@emptywheel@speechboy71 I agree, but them going into finance uses their brainpower to maximize Wall Street profits not other innovations1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @AdamBlickstein
@AdamBlickstein Right. And those aren't the kind of innovations that help a country compete.@speechboy711 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @emptywheel
@emptywheel@speechboy71 But they can help collapse the global economy so it kinda levels the playing field...ha!2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
@AdamBlickstein I suspect you'd find a lot of Chinese Engineer-Leaders who agree that's what happened and continues to. @speechboy71
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