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My Response to the State of the Union: Let's Just Pretend That It Never Happened : Mike the Mad Biologist

3) Education lies: When Obama claimed "The quality of our math and science education lags behind many other nations", that's true, but only because schools where 25 percent or more of the student body are low income do miserably (roughly one third of schools). That's as much an issue of poverty as anything else. Didn't mention that, however... Anyway, most of our schools are 'competitive.' Not that all of our schools shouldn't be good--they should be!--but maybe there are 'factors exogenous to the school system' going on here.