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Re:Economic Analysis of Medicare for All by beginningguava on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @08:14PM (#18614510)
US education is top notch based on international PISA scores if you break it down by race and compare them to europe, latin america, africa, etc

https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/pisa/pisa2015/pisa2015highlights...

Singapore almost always takes 1st in international test scores and their long time leader didn't pull punches

https://imgur.com/a/a8nCQUO

and it's not an income thing, the poorest whites and asians score as high as black students from families making 200k+ a year

https://i.imgur.com/PD9hz9b.jpg

So in a way you're right, US government does run their education system very well, it just seems to be a racial thing which can never be spoken about politically so it's just ignored as the elephant in the room

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Re:Economic Analysis of Medicare for All by VikingCoder on Thursday December 06, 2018 @08:34AM (#18617852)
Since people were treated separately based on their race (slavery, no right to vote, no civil rights, redlining, segregated schools), it's not a surprise you can still measure the impacts of that decades later, based on race.

It takes a long time to undo damage like that.

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