A NATION AT RISK. Via Econo Pundit, a view from Singapore about the connection between the failure of U.S. schools to teach algebra and the offshoring of routine jobs that make use of algebra.

Superintendent's note: most of what the observers of the school scene call "math" is really algebra, or calculations. "John is twice Mary's age. The sum of their ages is fourteen" is a calculation. "The real numbers cannot be placed into one-to-one correspondence with the counting numbers" is math.