100 american kids entering high school, what does fate have in store for them? 25 out of that hundred won t graduate from high school, a total of 50 won t go to college. that s half the class that won t go on to higher education. 50 will attends college, but only 22 will graduate within six years. meanwhile other countries are outsmarting us. on a recent international test, u.s. students ranked only 15th in the world in reading, 15 in science and 31st in math. what s odd is that we have been outstanding most developed countries by a long shot. in 2007, we spent over 10,000 per student versus the $7,400 average for rich countries. highway can we spend so much
a country. indeed our democracy depends on an educated citizenry. let s take a look. 100 american kids entering high school, what does fate have in store for them? 25 out of that hundred won t graduate from high school, a total of 50 won t go to college. that s half the class that won t go on to higher education. 50 will attends college, but only 22 will graduate within six years. meanwhile other countries are outsmarting us. on a recent international test, u.s. students ranked only 15th in the world in reading, 15 in science and 31st in math. what s odd is that we have been outstanding most developed countries by a long shot. in 2007, we spent over 10,000 per student versus the $7,400 average for rich countries. highway can we spend so much money and have so little to show for it. we ll have a special ending of time essay, we ll examine the roles of teachers, testing and testing. and we ll ask the man who spent millions of dollars trying to fix education about how he s spend
80, 90 democrats. probably a hundred won t vote for the debt ceiling no matter what. with those hundred republicans, that won t vote for the debt ceiling no matter what, is it a fact that there may not be the willingness to cut a deal no matter what on the republican side of this? and maybe the strategy of the white house and the president is, to put everything on the table and force them to say no, no matter what you do, we don t want to anyway. which will really make the american public understand. these people don t care about running the country or default. it is about ideology, not about the economy. the white house would be happy. they would appear like they are the adults and republicans are the children and they are hard line and extremists. but the white house, i think they would be very happy it strike this grand bargain, as