Just a thought on the value of “fixing” the under education problem.
It may very well serve the best interests of those who wield the sword of power to have an unmotivated and ignorant populous. Given this, I don't think there is much value to a cure, other than the value of suppressing it.
Well, I am not asking for answers from you, because I’m sure nobody really knows them so far.
I’m not sure of the general insincerity of politicians motivations; this is a worldwide issue, and I believe that people like Mahathir Mohammed of Malaysia, for instance, did sincerely want to boost the performance of his Malay people to match that of Malaysias Chinese minority, through perhaps the world most thorough (and very expensive) “affirmative action” program. He was quite bitter (and genuinely so I believe) that thirty years later it had made almost no difference.
If there was a known, certain method of closing that gap I am sure he would have bought into it.