{"id":528,"date":"2013-12-19T21:44:02","date_gmt":"2013-12-19T21:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drbrettdenkin.com\/blog\/?p=528"},"modified":"2013-12-19T21:44:02","modified_gmt":"2013-12-19T21:44:02","slug":"thomas-friedmans-thoughts-americas-competitiveness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drbrettdenkin.com\/blog\/thomas-friedmans-thoughts-americas-competitiveness\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Friedman’s Thoughts America’s Competitiveness"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Friedman’s thoughts in the Review section of this week’s Sunday New York Times are worth considering. American workers are increasingly less competitive with other nations like India, China, Singapore, Poland, and Germany to name a few. The problems are systemic. We simply don’t do a good enough job educating our children to compete in an increasingly globalized and competitive<\/a> world. The top ten percent of America now take home fifty percent of the national income. Income inequality is increasing. One solution is to learn from other countries who do a better job of providing autonomy, accountability, and ownership on a teaching and student level and who spend more per capita on less advantaged children. Having worked in inner city environments for years I have seen firsthand the systemic issues that create dynamics where poor and underprivileged children fall far behind their wealthier piers even by age five and certainly by age ten. We can and must do better!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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