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Again, all good and important points that must be addressed. But experience suggests answers to me. My brother built a Charter School in the slums of Wilmington Delaware (Biden’s home town). He has 600 students.
None of them has an identifiable father. In any year, at least three or four of his kids will be killed in shootouts. Yet, his kids score fifty percent above kids of the same grade level in the public schools.
It is possible to turn the present education debacle around. My brother can tell you how to do it. It is not all a matter of inevitable trend. Initiative, determination to reform can turn things around. It
just takes a decision to make some changes. Clyde From: Mayraj Fahim <fmayraj@yahoo.com>
Europe is also now desperate for the right immigration. Trouble is from where? India is facing the same problems as US: Thee educated are aging;while less educated will be young. The young in most developing countries are ill educated; and one thing all western developed countries have revealed they are bad at is capacity building. I looked at school reform in US and found that can fix financial issues but not education No magic solution available for improved education in US cities US education needs to prepare for 2042 demographic time bomb A study of 2 generations of immigrations has found that students perform worse after assimilation! Florida Study Shows Immigrant Performance Declines Across Generations US should have worked harder to address the looming challenge by the 1980s. I think past cannot be proloque. In local governments people are retiring;and raking knowledge with them. No Clean Water, Unplowed Streets: What the Public Sector’s Hiring Problem Means For All of Us US has a decrepit local governance structure which is exacerbating this problem. Problem has maststacized and now workforce not there. On Monday, May 13, 2024 at 12:36:32 AM GMT+5, Clyde Prestowitz <presto@econstrat.org> wrote:
Excellent questions and points. But properly handled immigration gives us a way of combating declining fertility that most of our competitors
do not have. There is no good reason why education cannot be improved. Of course, it will take some changes of attitude, but great challenges can often elicit unexpected changes. Never give up, I say. From: Mayraj Fahim <fmayraj@yahoo.com>
Woker shortfalls pinching so even want to bring disabled into workforce https://www.route-fifty.com/workforce/2024/05/invisible-no-more-states-move-hire-people-disabilities/396414/ ‘Invisible’ no more: States move to hire people with disabilities On Sunday, May 12, 2024 at 05:05:50 PM GMT+5, Mayraj Fahim via Salon <salon@listserve.com>
wrote: In 19th century US had capable workers. The Prussians/Germans were a great strength; And they also improved the ed system so could have
skilled workers. Can past be prologue when demographic change underway and less capable and educated will be young? https://hbr.org/2017/03/when-america-was-most-innovative-and-why When America Was Most Innovative, and Why
On Sunday, May 12, 2024 at 04:33:10 AM GMT+5, Clyde Prestowitz <presto@econstrat.org>
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Those are very good points. I would not discount them. However, we did become the world’s leading steel producer in the late 19th century via a combination of high tariffs
and domestically subsidized investment combined with a rapidly growing market.
I don’t think there is any reason, in principle, why we could not repeat this. We should be able to adopt or steal Chinese technology, we have a large market that could grow rapidly
for EVs. We would need to put a timetable in place as the Chinese have, and we would need to change the union situation, and we would need to reduce the power in congress of the Auto industry leaders by greatly limiting what they can do by way of political
donations. Challenging demands, but not impossible under the right leadership I think. Clyde
From: Mayraj Fahim <fmayraj@yahoo.com>
In the past, US had owners' capitalism now it is sinking further into grifting managerial capitalism.
On Saturday, May 11, 2024 at 07:47:30 PM GMT+5, Chas Freeman via Salon <salon@listserve.com> wrote:
I agree. We did industrial policy very successfully until we developed an ideological allergy to it. That didn't happen spontaneously. It had a lot of help from corporate lobbying
and propaganda.
That was then. This is now. The same is true, I believe, with protectionist measures. When applied to a developing technology in an infant industry they can enable the industry to
grow and --if there is domestic competition -- innovate and become more competitive. But industries dying because they are no longer competitive or very innovative because they are operating in an oligopolistic environment do not become more vigorous if protected
from foreign competition. They can be kept alive but only at considerable public expense. Our automobile industry is a case in point. Loss of competitiveness, followed by protectionist quotas and tariffs, followed by bailouts. The way to preserve a healthy
domestic auto industry proved to be to encourage foreign producers to produce here. We are attempting to replicate this approach with our moribund semiconductor industry. I am skeptical that this will work -- for reasons you and I have discussed. But I
am quite sure that shutting Chinese EVs may allow our automakers to survive but it will not revive their competitiveness and we will simply lose access to a technology that will become everywhere else ubiquitous.
Chas
On Sat, May 11, 2024 at 12:50 AM Clyde Prestowitz <presto@econstrat.org> wrote:
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