“PISA Day”—An Ideological and Hyperventilated Exercise | Economic Policy Institute

http://www.epi.org/blog/pisa-day-ideological-hyperventilated-exercise/

Today, threats to the nation's future prosperity come much less from flaws in our education system than from insufficiently stimulative fiscal policies which tolerate excessive unemployment, wasting much of the education our young people have acquired; an outdated infrastructure: regulatory and tax policies that reward speculation more than productivity; an over-extended military; declining public investment in research and innovation; a wasteful and inefficient health care system; and the fact that typical workers and their families, no matter how well educated, do not share in the fruits of productivity growth as they once did. The best education system we can imagine can't succeed if we ignore these other problems - See more at: http://www.epi.org/blog/pisa-day-ideological-hyperventilated-exercise/#sthash.JvKvAAcb.dpuf

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