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in the United States and we have really
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great graduate schools no question about
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that and some of the finest colleges but
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at our secondary Primary School it's
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really bad and getting worse if you're
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going to increase the standard of living
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of the population you have to train them
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for the 21st century jobs no one is
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talking about how do we educate our
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young to get the skills that they need
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to get the wages in the new economy if I
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had the one choice it would be K
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through2 I mean that is is still the
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part that is really lacking in America
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it's also heavily divided by race in
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particular and it's not just about money
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first of all we have incredible
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segregation in K through2 by race if you
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just only look at predominantly black
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schools and look how much we spend per
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kid it still will be the highest in the
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oecd there's a lot of other things that
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are being done there and so the move
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towards social promotion fact that lots
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of our graduates are not able to do
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mathematics beyond the sixth grade
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retraining is not going to be useful for
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a lot of that and so that is really
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where I'd focus and
