Education and Class

• The American Dream Is Leaving America – NYTimes.com

  “In effect, the United States has become 19th-century Britain: We provide superb education for elites, but we falter at mass education.

  In particular, we fail at early education. Across the O.E.C.D., an average of 70 percent of 3-year-olds are enrolled in education programs. In the United States, it’s 38 percent.

  In some quarters, there’s a perception that American teachers are lazy. But the O.E.C.D. report indicates that American teachers work far longer hours than their counterparts abroad. Yet American teachers earn 68 percent as much as the average American college-educated worker, while the O.E.C.D. average is 88 percent.”

  tags: socialclass

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