Well NJ and Alabama aren't exactly contiguous, so my guess is that it must be pretty widespread. Who knows? Each state is its own thing. Getting hold of the collated information at a federal level, with state-wide breakdowns of educational attainment and analysis of respective demographic differences, starting conditions, and significant problems would give us a better clue as to what is going on. But you guys need root and branch reorganisation from the sound of it. (So do we, by the way.) And in some respects that can't happen at a state level if you want to get rid of regional differences. However, in America, the federal is bad and the state is good, so it's never going to happen.
If China ever adopts the Finnish model we are all so fucked. Unless we build something to do even better than that, of course: and such is not beyond our abilities. But do you really want to see every pregnant woman in the US playing J S Bach through a tummy-speaker to her unborn infant? (Wouldn't bother me none, actually.) Or can you see folk in um, er, Camden, pushing their kids to learn without it being made apparent to them of the importance of learning? (Without a carrot or a stick, that is.)
The C21st is going to be a very different place. Folk will need all kinds of learning if we are to make sense enough of things to survive. Which to my mind is what we should be striving for.
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Date: 29/12/16 22:10 (UTC)If China ever adopts the Finnish model we are all so fucked. Unless we build something to do even better than that, of course: and such is not beyond our abilities. But do you really want to see every pregnant woman in the US playing J S Bach through a tummy-speaker to her unborn infant? (Wouldn't bother me none, actually.) Or can you see folk in um, er, Camden, pushing their kids to learn without it being made apparent to them of the importance of learning? (Without a carrot or a stick, that is.)
The C21st is going to be a very different place. Folk will need all kinds of learning if we are to make sense enough of things to survive. Which to my mind is what we should be striving for.