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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Another huge elephant in the room is poverty and shipping jobs overseas.  Lift people out of poverty and scores will go up...but need to give it some time.[/quote]

[b]And the best way to reduce offshoring and reduce poverty is by making kids more employable[/b].  And the way that happens is that you give them BETTER math and literacy skills, not by bitching about and watering down / getting rid of standards.

The world is getting MORE complex, not less.  It's getting HARDER to get hired, not easier.  This is why we need to RAISE the bar, not lower it.
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Actually, if your goal is reducing poverty, I think it's much more effective to actually address poverty directly, here and now, rather than to raise educational standards in the hope that this will make poor children more employable some day in the future.

But evidently actually addressing poverty directly is yet another thing that we used to be able to do in America but now can no longer do.[/quote]

What do you mean, "directly address poverty?" and "we used to be able to do in America" - we never "directly addressed poverty" other than a.) handouts which solve nothing longterm (again, give a man a fish vs. teach a man to fish) or b.) stimulus and job creation (ARRA, WPA) - but your whole problem there is that our Republican controlled Congress thinks it's more important to spend money on foreign wars and wasting hundreds of billions of dollars US military equipment rotting in far flung Arab sand pits than they do on putting people to work here in the US to fix our crumbling roads, bridges, et cetera.[/quote]

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