I get that it makes you uncomfortable, but it feels like you're asking for someone to give you the ability to stick your head in the sand and excuse the problem.
The problem is real and will likely manifest itself dramatically over the next century.
Your parent is unhappy with these articles because they are basically doomsday proclamations. "Uncomfortable" doesn't even enter into it, because the message is simply "welp, we're fucked". That's why new angles would be interesting.
But other countries aren't fucked. They did well on the test, so why can't the solution be to do what those other countries are doing?
Flanders and Australia are every bit as 'incomparable' as Finland and the US, so let's just compare anyway. It turns out there are major consequences for income inequality, and most of the countries listed in the top categories have worked aggressively to reduce it and to alleviate it's consequences through social programs.
What those other countries are doing is not having many Africans. But this is not a problem, and would be difficult to fix even if it were.
Income inequality is a major goal of American politics. The poverty oligarchs farm the poor for votes. This will continue for as long as Americans practice the perversion known as democracy.
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Sigh Yet another US Education hit piece. I love reading these because they all have the same myopic trope:
1. Other countries score better on subject tests than the US on average.
2. This has traditionally been blamed on the USA's high diversity and immigrant population.
3. Cue policy expert giving us a dire warning about how there are no politically tenable solutions to the US education crisis.
4. Cue 2nd policy expert talking about how devastating the skills gap will be on the economy.
Can someone give us a different angle?
I get that it makes you uncomfortable, but it feels like you're asking for someone to give you the ability to stick your head in the sand and excuse the problem.
The problem is real and will likely manifest itself dramatically over the next century.
Your parent is unhappy with these articles because they are basically doomsday proclamations. "Uncomfortable" doesn't even enter into it, because the message is simply "welp, we're fucked". That's why new angles would be interesting.
But other countries aren't fucked. They did well on the test, so why can't the solution be to do what those other countries are doing?
Flanders and Australia are every bit as 'incomparable' as Finland and the US, so let's just compare anyway. It turns out there are major consequences for income inequality, and most of the countries listed in the top categories have worked aggressively to reduce it and to alleviate it's consequences through social programs.
What those other countries are doing is not having many Africans. But this is not a problem, and would be difficult to fix even if it were.
Income inequality is a major goal of American politics. The poverty oligarchs farm the poor for votes. This will continue for as long as Americans practice the perversion known as democracy.