How were not delivering on some of the things were paying the most for. This is measuring the OUTCOMES, not how much you spend, and ranking you accordingly. Healthcare, for example, were number 70. With Iran, Kuwait, and the other non-Western countries. Access to information and communications? Iceland is number 1, Norway is number 2, Sweden is number 3... United States? 23rd. In terms of objective measures of how well information is penetrating broadly, we do very poorly. Press freedom? Were 21st. Jamaica scores higher than we do on this. Access to basic knowledge? Number 1 is Japan. 39th is the USA. Were down with Cuba and Georgia. This is a measure of enrollment in primary school, dropout rates for secondary school and the like. We invented many of these values, but we have not put the work in to maintain them. Were not number 1. We pioneered access to education, but we gave up and started focusing on other things.
Posted on: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 01:00:15 +0000
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