“No matter your business, you cannot stay still for any length of time or your competitors will scratch and claw all over you.” That’s how Home Depot co-founder Arthur Blank described life in the real, ruthless world of commerce.
Please contemplate Blank’s dose of reality with all the pearl-clutching from the education-obsessed over a new study showing that one out of eight University of California, San Diego (UCSD) freshmen “have math skills ‘that fall below middle-school level.’” According to an editorial in the Wall Street Journal that covered the recent analysis, “California started down the slippery slope of declining standards by dropping algebra as a requirement for eighth-graders” in 2013. Oh no! What will we do?
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