• Omgpwnies@lemmy.world
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      Quality and quantity of education are leading indicators of the overall trajectory of a region. Everything else follows. More educated people demand better services and more educated people are capable of providing those better services. Better educated people vote for candidates who are able to create better policies driven by data and research. All of this creates positive feedback loops as long as the quality and quantity of education is kept up. If that slips, all of the above will also eventually degrade.

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        as long as the quality and quantity of education is kept up. If that slips, all of the above will also eventually degrade

        Which is exactly what’s happened across a lot of the US.

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      a public education system so horribly bad that students actually did better after covid lockdowns and remote learning kept them out of the classroom for a year.