Myth or not, Common Core will fix it all. We've been doing math wrong all throughout history. /s
I was in HS in the mid-60s in small town rural America. Even back then and there, the unqualified were hired as teachers to fulfill the minority quota hiring mandates.
My observation is most problems with education are union related.
That's an anecdote.
Sure, add the anecdote from NJ and we not got "data" but while that may be great for political hacks when we get serious we always go w/ the "America's best" mode. Admit it. Say you need the best Doctor there is so you hire what, one educated in Togo? The whole world loves bashing America's ed system too but then they turn right around and come to the U.S. for a degree. Like, how many Americans you know send their kids away to college in say, Belarus? On top of all that the big thing being overlooked here is the fact that the great majority of American education is private and for profit. This wonderful hopenchange recovery has been terrific for my stocks in companies that retrain unemployed workers.
There's a lot more but I need to breath into a paper bag for a bit...