I Hate To Think That

That Was A Real Fireball.

Most Of Our Competitor Nations Around The World Have A National Education System And America Is The Only Major Nation In The World That Operates Off Of Local School Boards. They Receive Very Little Direction From State Boards Of Education Or From The Nation. So Local School Boards Direct Basically What Happens And Too Often They're Not Willing To Track Or To Do The Supervision Of The Education System That Will Make It World Competitive.

This Is A Day We Have Managed To Avoid For A Quarter Of A Century. We've Talked About It Before And Speculated About It, And It Finally Has Occurred. We Hoped We Could Push This Day Back Forever.

On K-12 Education America Has Gone Down, Down, Down Compared To The Other Nations. It Doesn't Mean That We Have Gotten Dumber. It Just Means That We Have Not Advanced As Fast In Those Areas As Other Nations Have Done, And We're Way Down Right Now.

There Is Still No Cure For The Common Birthday.