I disagree, while there are glaring problems within U.S. educational systems there are two significant factors mitigating how crippling they are long term. 1.

I disagree, while there are glaring problems within U.S. educational systems there are two significant factors mitigating how crippling they are long term. 1. Opportunities, there are tons of opportunities in U.S., if you want to learn you will find a way to despite all the flaws. 2. Immigration, there are a lot of highly educated people immigrating into U.S. Additionally we still cannot anticipate how whole MOOCs business will turn out. So yes the are problems and they are very bad, but not as crippling as you might expect.