i’ve been looking at education recently and i’m blown away by how poor our basic reading, writing, and math results are.
below are some screenshots from a study in chicago showing the growing costs and poor results of students in their education system.
this isn’t isolated to chicago either. in Canada, roughly half of all adults can’t read at a high school level.
based on this data, my guess is that these awful results aren’t for a lack of financial resources or unreasonably high education standards (after all, the governments running schools get to set their own education standards).
if that is true, what do you think is the cause of our education failures? if you were in charge, what would you be doing to fix these issues?