Like most Latin American nations, Colombia is plagued by the
socioeconomic and political
conditions which make revolutionary change a real possibility: vast unemployment, runaway inflation, a high degree of infant mortality, large - scale malnutrition.
Why, for example, focus on unsubstantiated ideas
like the Common Core rather than do something that would really matter, such as improve instructional quality, reverse school funding cuts that are harming schools, or address the inequities and
socioeconomic conditions that researchers have demonstrated are persistent causes of low academic performance?