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The results reported in the national exam officially known as the National Assessment of Educational Progress show New York school districts are spending $89 billion this academic year.

Records show across the five boroughs, public schools spent an average of $21,112 per student in fiscal year 2023-24, though dozens of schools spent more – up to $60,000 a student.,

Despite the sky-high spending, only 33% of New Yoek fourth graders scored proficient in math and just 28% were proficient in reading last year.

Older students’ results were even worse – 23% of city eighth graders were proficient in math and 29% in reading.

Even more troubling is the huge racial gap in test scores within New York City.

The results show only 16% of black and Hispanic fourth-grade students were proficient in math, compared to 53% of white students and 58% of Asian students.

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The Mars Climate Orbiter, built at a cost of $125 million, was a 638-kilogram robotic space probe launched by NASA on December 11, 1998, to study the Martian climate. It crashed on entering Mars's atmosphere. The engineers did not take into consideration that the units had been converted. i.e., the acceleration readings measured in English units of pound-seconds^2 for a metric measure of force called newton-seconds^2. In a sense, the spacecraft was lost in translation.

Any confident in climate measurements or effective teaching techniques might ponder on this.

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Only 3 of the top 50 largest Latin American companies are Argentine (22 are Brazilian, 14 Mexican, and 8 Chilean). Moreover, only 7 of the top 100 largest Latin American companies are Argentine.

There are just about $50 billion invested by Argentine companies abroad; compared to $300 billion from Brazil, $215 billion from Mexico, $140 billion from Chile, and $75 billion from Colombia.