America left behind
By Doug Schoen/Huffington Post
Last month saw a major debate over the passing of the war funding bill. Buried within that debate was another, far reaching debate on domestic education funding to avert teacher layoffs that was eventually stripped from the bill. In light of this development, it is important that Americans remember that we became the world's indispensable nation, largely because of our early and almost certainly unique emphasis on mass public education. (more...)