There is a growing agreement that the war on educational inequality has failed: America has spent $120 billion trying to raise the achievements of poor children since 1965 without any appreciable closing of the education gap.
Those remarks, which did not receive wide coverage at the time, have since prompted close followers of education policy to wonder whether the president opposes his own Education Department.
Closing the doors of education to the people of Balochistan seems to be consistent with Pakistan's policy of suppression of the ethnic Baloch population that wants absolute control over the affairs of their province.
Puerto Rico has a decaying public education system, and a bill like PROMESA facilitates the closing of schools and education programs in order to pay the debt.
Until today it was only the public schools that had closed, but now the ministry of education has closed all schools, which includes private ones like the Regent's School in Bangkok where I teach.
By contrast, says Niny Khor, an economist in Beijing at the Asian Development Bank, China has an urban-rural gap of close to three years of education.
Beginning with the full sample of all couples in column 1 of Table 2, males (panel 1) and females (panel 2) can be seen to have similar education (both genders having on average close to 13 years of education).
Highlight: emphasis on pre-school education, and effective means of closing the education, and later, the income gap.
He can rightly claim very impressive accomplishments in the area of education; the closer people look at the Texas record, the better it is.
"Young people dropped out of school during the boom and their education level is very low," she said, adding that what is needed is more apprenticeships and a closer relationship between the worlds of education and work.
