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