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0 pointsPostOnce8y ago0 comments

There are 55 million people in elementary/middle/high school in America, and 20 million in a college or university.

Google employs 74,000 people, so, there are a thousand times more students than Google employees, and obviously not all of those employees are working on AI; I assume most of them are sales & admin.

Facebook employs less than a third of that at 20,000.

A drop in the ocean compared to all the students that are being chronically underserved and undereducated.

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baldfat8y ago· 3 in thread

The "Divide" in the US is Inner-City Schools and poor Rural Schools. If you look at the rest of America's schools they are among the best in the world. If you take just Massachusetts scores they one of the top 5 in the world. http://www.doe.mass.edu/news/news.aspx?id=24050

The big issue is how we fund schools. It is based on the value of your home divided by the number of children that lives in said homes. Since the richer you are the less children you have they get more money. http://www.economist.com/node/21561112

Until we take the funding of school's to the state level we can talk till we are blue in the face and we will continue to have a "Divide." I don't understand why the AARP and other groups don't jump on the bandwagon and remove the burden of school tax off the backs of fixed income home owners. Fair funding is the foundation that will happen only if the US Court System steps in, because I can't see this happening any other way.

For Pennsylvania they have the biggest gap in the nation with the poorest Charter School Law in America. http://fairfundingpa.org/resources/infographics/

eli_gottlieb8y ago

>The "Divide" in the US is Inner-City Schools and poor Rural Schools. If you look at the rest of America's schools they are among the best in the world.

There's another way to put that: America's well-off suburbs have very good schools, but most of America does not. We need some numbers on the concentration of school-age children into good suburban districts versus "bad" inner-city and rural districts.

baldfat8y ago

THis is as good as I can find:

http://hechingerreport.org/struggling-cities-and-excelling-s...

The issue is defining suburbs. Usually it is Rural vs City (Which includes suburbs)

analog318y ago

It might be possible to find a ballpark estimate by the number of poor children.

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