Arizona is teetering on the edge of becoming a "failed state" due to its race-to-the-bottom educational system, lack of public infrastructure, corporate giveaways, and de facto rightwing coup d'etat in the halls of legislative power.
In these subjects, our students consistently rank near the bottom in educational achievement among the world's 30 richest nations, according to the latest Program for International Student Assessment PISAA) scores.
Due to the growing phenomenon of over-education, youth are crowded out of the bottom of the educational pyramid, and less‐educated young people find themselves at the very back of the queue - even for those jobs for which they are best qualified.
Clearly written from experience, the play offers a wincingly plausible picture of life at the bottom of the educational heap.
Inner London, once universally condemned as a repository for all that was wrong with our schools, is no longer at the bottom of the educational league tables.
Those at the bottom of the educational heap tend to be white, working-class, Protestant boys from families in which academic aspiration is absent.
The educational bottom line, it seems, is that while computer technology has matured and become more affordable, the most significant development has been a deeper understanding of how to use the technology.
If our problems did lie here, states without collective bargaining should not lie at the bottom of the educational achievement scale, and charter schools should by now have produced some greater returns.
Professor Chris Husbands, director of the Institute of Education, said that while Britain had high flyers as skilled and educated as its international peers, it was the country's failure to improve those on the bottom rungs of educational achievement that saw it lag behind the likes of Finland and Japan.
Their parents are poor, and often illiterate; and they, predictably, are at the bottom of the educational pile (see chart).Schooling problems can be overcome, says Sir Herman Ouseley, a former chairman of the CRE who is compiling a report on Bradford, whose Asians have much the same background as Oldham's and where there was a similar riot in 1995.
Given that the state lurks near the bottom of the educational rankings, it is a good question and one that is liable to pull in plenty of votes.Mr Hollings's team point to the obvious logic: mid-term elections are normally cloaked with apathy, but if voters are energised to turn out to support Jim Hodges, then by party association they will surely be tempted to vote for Fritz Hollings too.
