Almost seems like a riddle
Hmmm!
The U.S. public K-12 system is the best in the world,
but 50% of its graduating students cannot read, write, or do math.
There's also this: The U.S. K-12 system may be the envy of the world.
Annual poll: The U.S. K-12 education system is voted the best in the world, a unanimous vote by the other 30-plus industrialized nations.
Supporting this sentiment is the third-party view of parents and grandparents across the world: They (passports in hand!) want their children to be educated in the United States.
Clearly, people across the world see U.S. education including its foundational public K-12 system as a WINDFALL OPPORTUNITY.
Every young person in the U.S. has this windfall—embrace it or shun it, it's a windfall.
And yet 50% of all graduating K-12 public school students cannot reach minimum NAEP proficiency in reading, writing, math, or any other subject tested.
Within that 50% is a trove of unknown talent and ability, not unlike that of the top 50%. (Take a moment to look at a society’s capitalization rate.)
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In sum, public K-12 education in the U.S. is free and is a windfall!
On the other hand, the odds that K-12 students will reach even minimum NAEP proficiency in reading, writing, and math are only 50-50. Flip a coin.
Heads.
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- Nealy half of all high school graduates can read, write, and do math at some level of NAEP proficiency. That’s a good start.
- And it’s indispensable for the odds of a better socioeconomic future.
- In baseball, that “good start” would be like making it to first base. (But then there are three more bases.)
Tails.
- Roughly half of all K-12 students upon graduating from high school in the U.S. CANNOT read, write, or do math at any level of NAEP proficiency.
- Untold quality-of-life hardship and socioeconomic disadvantage may last a lifetime for these students and their future families.
