The Bottom F Grade

The Campaign for Global Education has released its judgement on how the industrialized, wealthiest nations have performed over the last five years according to the universally accepted and supported UN Millenium Development Goals of 2000.

It grades 22 of them in what it calls a school report card. Two countries, Norway and the Netherlands get an A grade, but the US and Austria receive the bottom F grade.
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The Campaign for Global Education says it is scandalous that this target [global access to primary education by 2015] is likely to be missed.

Austria? We're in a cut-throat losing battle with Austria for the worst grade?

[Interestingly: Austria's 38% budget committment to Foreign Aid in relation to Military spending pales the US' 3%. Austria is third behind Denmark and the Netherlands. What's going on here...?]

I suppose that the President's initiatives for No Child Left Behind don't have any relevent connection to the external world, although, it has yet to be proven that they have much of a relevent connection to any world at all, as politically motivated and underfunded it was. Of course, glad that the President could fund the propaganda to keep No Child in the forefront.

Hell, if we even funded propaganda promoting global education initiatives we'd at least get a damn D-.