The Uneducated American

nytimes.com — If you had to explain America’s economic success with one word, that word would be “education.” The rise of American education was, overwhelmingly, the rise of public education — and for the past 30 years our political scene has been dominated by the view that any and all government spending is a waste of taxpayer dollars. Education, as one of the largest components of public spending, has inevitably suffered.

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