This is alarming—and we should be more worried about it than we are

This article in today's New York Times reminds me of climate change back in the 1990s when nobody was really worried about it, at least yet. The effects seemed a long ways off and we were kicking the can down the road.

These poorly-schooled, not-able-to-read-at-their-level students will be out in the workplace very soon. They will not be able to compete against Chinese, Korean, Japanese and European students. While we worry about non-existent military threats, we let our country rot from within. It's a five-alarm fire, and we're in total denial.