Commentary: Education As an Export/Import Business

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Conventional wisdom: Tax-averse states that fail to adequately fund public elementary, secondary, and higher education will fall behind their peers. Superb public education creates the educated workforce so necessary to economic success.

Statistics 101: Colorado is a little better at funding education than southern backwaters such as Alabama, Arkansas, and Mississippi, but we're still down there with the bottom feeders. Metrics that focus on student achievement and educational outcomes put us, at best, in the middle of the pack.

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Commentary: Education As an Export/Import Business

Statistics 102: We're one of the best-educated states in the country, as measured by percentage of residents w...

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