Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
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The Permanent Recession

This article raises an interesting point: America doesn't educate all its people effectively. This creates a permanent drag on their earning capacity, which lowers the amount the country makes too.

Report Says Education Gaps Create "Permanent Recession"
Stacy Teicher Khadaroo, The Christian Science Monitor: "Educational achievement gaps are typically measured in terms of test scores - across lines of race and income, or even across state and national borders. But what if they were measured in dollars?"


One way to improve matters would be to narrow or close the gaps in education. Another would be to put some serious effort into matching people's interests and abilities to suitable careers. Right now, we are wasting a tremendous amount of human potential; we should not be doing that.
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