Economic Cost Of US Education Gap

The McKinsey Quarterly discusses the lost GDP due to the persistent educational under achievement of US students versus students in other countries.

A persistent gap in academic achievement between children in the United States and their counterparts in other countries deprived the US economy of as much as $2.3 trillion in economic output in 2008, McKinsey research finds.

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The complete McKinsey achievement gap study plus supporting material is available here.