cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/523192

Once the best educated in the world, the American workforce has become the worst educated in the industrialized world, according to a policy brief by the National Center on Education and the Economy.

Our workers are already at a disadvantage in competing with skilled workers of other nations. The new California math curriculum will inevitably impact the math in other states and cause further decline in the academic achievement of our workforce.

That does not bode well for the future of the American economy