Four of the five top PISA performers have hyper-scholastic East Asian education systems, where competition for academic places determines your success in everything else. And their societies are very… (View Post)

Forgive me for ignoring the ad hominem rants, but I assume it is boilerplate teacher chat. The rest is good. It sounds from the header like fixing education for everyone requires radical reform. Simp… (View Post)

65 - 18 = people who were probably not having new kids at the time. (View Post)

Public sector wages act as a benchmark for other wage settlements. The economists who never bothered to learn that are the same ones who never bothered to learn about inflation full stop. Maybe they … (View Post)

Helpfully, this specifically is not a problem in the USA where Spanish is naturally the most-taught language, outstripping all others by an order of magnitude. (View Post)