The success or failure of our education system will determine if we are able to preserve supremacy within the global power structure. The way we educate our children – all our children – has increasingly historic implications for every single one of us. In this relatively new era of world interdependence, an uneducated, unskilled, and unprepared work force equals an unparalleled disaster for this country.

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And don’t be fooled. Regardless of the havoc the Trump/Vance administration is wreaking with their shockingly irresponsible trade war, America’s long-term commitment to worldwide commerce will not likely change any time soon because, realistically, retreating from the rest of the world is not a long-term option. That’s just not the world we live in anymore. Temporary economic assistance for displaced workers may help in the short term, but at the end of the day it’s education and education alone that will be the great equalizer.

 

And we’re failing at it, spectacularly.