The most recent data from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) reveal that the U.S. ranked high, relative to other OECD countries, in reading, math, and science (especially in reading, and in all areas better in 4th grade than in 8th grade). Some U.S. private schools were included, but a separate evaluation was done for Florida, in public schools only, and their results were higher than the U.S. average.
Perhaps most significant in the NCES reading results is that schools with less than 25% free-lunch eligibility scored higher than the average in ALL OTHER COUNTRIES.
The Obvious: Reduce Poverty and Improve Education.
(The article goes on to reveal how school children are just one more very profitable commodity and we would add that they will remain so until we abolish capitalism.)
The Business of Schoolchildren:
In Brown vs the Board of Education in 1954, Chief Justice Earl Warren said, "Education...is a right which must be made available to all on equal terms."
In the mindset of big business, the best education is in learning how to make money off the children.
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