airyairyquitecontrary: wilwheaton: keepcalmandsuperwholock: uctwerkeley: slimewizard: never not reblog And then there’s good ol’ America This actually makes me so angry. The truth is right here and people see it and brush it aside. We really could make things better. But no, America apparently wants to suck forever. You know, America, if we spent some money investing in education instead of making sure the ultra-rich were even more ultra-rich, we could *actually* be the exceptional nation that we pretend to be. Hey, would you like to hear something pretty fucking horrifying? Ministries of education in countries like New Zealand are adopting measures more similar to those used in the United States. This, despite the international stereotype of Americans as either extremely poorly educated, or educationally hothoused and neurotic. Because the United States is an incredibly rich nation, with lots of the richest rich people in the world. So we ought to emulate them, right? Despite the fact that we have been outperforming them in the PISA and other international rankings for decades.
