Instead, it creates jobs for the people out there ready to fill them. If you want to start a company that requires the services of 32 rocket scientists, and the only people available are qualified only for working a griddle, then the odds are you'll put your money into hamburger flipping. You'd be a fool to do otherwise. We live in a world where brains have replaced brawn as the way to get ahead, where thinking is mandated on most jobs, and thinking requires tools that education gives us. No, yes and no.
Test scores are up in most school districts in the United States.
Not way up, of course. Still, the direction's encouraging. Education spending also is up, although it's difficult to make any sort of connection between money and quality. D.C. It also happens to spend more per child than any other. Job candidates with better skills Business leaders also are seeing signs of improvement in their hires.