[h=1]Why Gloomy Pundits and Politicians Are Wrong About America's Education System[/h]
Pundits and politicians, gloomy or otherwise, have a history of being wrong.
Here's what everybody knows about education in the United States. It's broken. It's failing our poorest students and codding the richest. Americans are falling desperately behind the rest of the developed world.
But here's what a new study from the Economic Policy Institute tells us about America's education system: Every one of those common assumptions is simplistic, misguided, or downright wrong.
Pundits and politicians, gloomy or otherwise, have a history of being wrong.