As for the poor educational outcomes of the US vs other countries: When adjusted for economic class, the US is near the top.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2013/01/15/u-s-scores-on-international-test-lowered-by-sampling-error-report/ On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 2:07 PM, Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ed Storms wrote: > > >> Thanks Mark. Their view of reality differs significantly from what the >> people I read describe. I tend to believe my people because they >> predicted the 2008 collapse while Krugman did not. . . . > > > Krugman did predict it, and warned against it several times. Such as here, > in 2005: > > http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/27/opinion/27krugman.html?_r=0 > > He repeatedly described the banks' investments in real estate as junk. > > > >> In fact the >> difference is frightening similar to that earlier. Krugman sees no >> problem with the status quo while the people I read are in a panic. > > > Wrong again. He is very much against the status quo. He is not in a panic > for the same reason I am not, and my mother would not be. It is a > personality thing. We don't get into a tizzy, perhaps even when we should. > Case in point: my mother was riding a trolley car past the Blair House on > November 1, 1950. President Truman was living there while the White House > was being rebuilt. There was a series of loud bangs. Someone said, "they're > trying to assassinate the president!!" My mother said, "don't be silly; it > is just a car backfiring" and went back to her newspaper. It turned out > someone was trying to assassinate the president. > > - Jed > >
