With resources, human and otherwise, seemingly distributed at random, the Earth’s 99 percent must, willingly or otherwise, participate in an Occupy My Globe (OMG) movement. The resultant interdependence, spurred largely by technology, has created a situation in which all nations are gravitating toward a worldwide mean.
The United States, whose per capita income has been above the mean, is resisting by trying to reform its education system in the hopes that an enlightened citizenry will find ways to create jobs and, upon creating them, have civilians qualified to take them.
A problem is that present school curricula leave students short of being globally competitive. Complicating matters is the fact that school district budgets cannot afford the costs that individual teacher creativity entails.
This means that education’s best must write national curricula, with districts finding problems with it hopefully able to write acceptable variants. Too, for the sake of accurate student and teacher measurement the tests and curricula should be written so that all students’ interests (service, vocational, academic, etc.) are accommodated and the focus can be on understanding the subject matter rather than teaching to the test or developing test-taking skills.
