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45 years ago we were 7th out of 8 on the first and only international test given.
Now we are lower with more countries taking the test.
http://www.brookings.edu/research/reports/2011/02/07-education-loveless
A new video produced by the California Federation of Teachers – which could be playing in your child’s classroom as we speak – drums up the typical class warfare images we’ve come to expect from Big Labor.
“Tax the Rich: An Animated Fairy Tale,” written by CFT staffer Fred Glass (2011 compensation: $139,800) and narrated by proud leftist actor (and 1 percenter) Ed Asner, advocates for higher taxes on the “rich” as the cure for government’s insatiable thirst for spending.
The video claims the rich got rich through tax cuts and tax loopholes and even tax...
All the links he provides are to liberal sources. If that's all he goes on, he has (at best) one side of the story, and in reality no facts.
He should change his name to "headupmybutt".
You have no facts, unless you notice it's kind of smelly where your head is permanently implanted. What European country (or any country in the world has no poverty?) Every socialist country in Europe is going broke, teens rioting in the streets because they won't get a free life provided by government.
You have no facts, no proof just a bunch of krap.
A 4 second Google search of "school choice in Europe" brings up countless entries (as I recall Sweden often ranks high on those lists). For someone always pushing education issues, you sure seem determined not to avail yourself of any.
If you eliminate the students in poverty in our country from the results we come out as the best country.
I don't know anyone that makes an argument for choice being the reason for top countries. But if you have some links/citations making that argument I would like to see it (Nothing from Stossel, please. Any other source though, I'm all ears or eyes.).