Bill & Melinda Gates on Oprah

Bill & Melinda Gates were guests on Oprah today. Not in studio audience guests but video recorded segments. The topic of the episode is the poor state of the nation’s educational system. Not a lot of argument there. Interesting fact that Oprah mentioned was that the United States ranked 24th in the world in mathematics.

We definitely need to figure out what to do in this country to improve this situation. The financial support of the Gates and the Gates Foundation will definitely help, but it’s going to take much more than that.

I found out that here in Indiana, students under 18 that drop out of school will have their driver’s licenses revoked, unless they have a health, work or other viable reason to do so.