It's interesting that the title is actually ambiguous. The "battle we don't want to win" could be read as a race to the bottom, as the writer means it, but it

It's interesting that the title is actually ambiguous. The "battle we don't want to win" could be read as a race to the bottom, as the writer means it, but it can also be read as "America doesn't really want to win" or "America doesn't really believe in education". I was sort of expecting the latter meanings when I went into the article.