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Education is not under Federal control, I live one of those "high performing" states. Painting this as a US issue is as silly as painting an issue solely contro
by voidlogic 12y ago
Education is not under Federal control, I live one of those "high performing" states. Painting this as a US issue is as silly as painting an issue solely controlled at the national level as an EU issue. I think the BBC's choice of portraying the US as a rusty bus is offensive as, again, this regional not a national issue.
I also think the areas named of poor performance often have poor performance across the board, that is not limited to the subject of mathematics specificity.
- esbranson 12y agoI disagree that the article painted the issue as a national issue. To the contrary, this is the rare occasion that I see a recognition on the part of Europeans that the US is composed of 50 states, and that making conclusions about the EU based only upon information from Romania, Croatia and Poland is probably ill-advised. It recognizes that states like California are big (being more populous than all of of Canada). And it recognizes what many Americans already know: the South is America's Eastern Europe.