Clueless in America - New York Times

"An American kid drops out of high school every 26 seconds. That’s more than a million every year"

"Roughly a third of all American high school students drop out. Another third graduate but are not prepared for the next stage of life — either productive work or some form of post-secondary education."

"When two-thirds of all teenagers old enough to graduate from high school are incapable of mastering college-level work, the nation is doing something awfully wrong."

Bob Hebert of the NYT points to what must be a root cause for many of our societal issues. One would think I suspect that a better educated population would better be able to think thru and talk about and then ultimately address and solve the "other" issues we waste so much of our breath on.