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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not at all. 
If education was on par with the top developed countries, there would be less job shortage in America.

I'm reading a lot on education quality around the world. Read The Smartest Kids in the World, by Amanda Ripley.
She followed three American high school students who went on exchange to South Korea, Poland and Finland, and lived through those education systems for one school year.

America ranks lower than the average of developed countries in most academic achievement tests, including the very interesting PISA test, which was developed to test, not knowledge, but critical thinking, a good way of measuring future financial success. This despite the fact that the USA spends more per student than most other countries!

Research has found that the usual causes cited for such an astonishing discrepancy are NOT economic inequality and immigration, as many people are fond of saying. If these variables are eliminated from the data, the US still comes up behind most developed countries. The real causes are a lack of rigor and clear standards, a curriculum that's too simplified, conflict between local and national standards (local curriculums and standardized tests don't match up) and an unwillingness to treat students honestly (giving the grades they earned, instead of inflated grades).

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Wrong. Poverty is still the problem. http://nasspblogs.org/principaldifference/2014/02/pisa-its-still-poverty-not-stupid/

Poverty Rate   PISA Score

Finland     3.4%               536
Poland.     14.5%             500
Norway     3.6%.              503

For American schools:
Poverty Rate               PISA score
below 10%                        551
between 10 and 25%         527

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