Education? What Education?

I was going to talk about the bank fraud called the foreclosure system, but something even more important is our educational system. Now I'm not calling it fraud because it's not so much the educational system that's screwed up as it is our political system that's screwed up and that's what's got our educational system screwed up. You don't agree? How about Texas where the state determines which textbooks schools can buy and the content in them, like calling slavery in colonial America a three way trade system. And since Texas is the largest buyer of textbooks in the country, what Texas buys is what everybody has to buy. Publishers don't print anything else. We've fallen behind in education to where we're ranked 27th in industrial nations in proportion of college students with science or engineering degrees, 11th in the fraction of 25 - 34  year olds with a high school degree, 48th in K-12 quality of math and science education. In 2005 a bi-partisan group of Senators asked our National Academies to list 10 actions the Federal Government could take to improve our science standings. It's second report came out in September of this year. Have any of you heard anything about it from our politicians this campaign season? Isn't this the best time ever to talk about it? How come none of the candidates have mentioned it? How come nothing is being done about it in congress? Some things have been proposed by Obama and some have been implemented, but this is how we get ourselves out of the rut we're in and into real prosperity in the future. I guess if you're a Congressman or Senator you're already prosperous so there's no real point in talking further about it. And if you're aspiring to become a Congressman or Senator, campaigning is all you want to talk about. You know. Say something bad about the incumbent. Truth isn't a factor. In fact truth seems to be a liability nobody wants to carry.