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The conventional belief is to promote the mean school years proxied as the human capital (by the conventional economists), but the truth is math impacts on the socio-economic issues are far greater than those by the literacy or years of schooling contrary to the popular belief. USL 0.5 and 1.0 will focus on the revolutionary boosts of the global average math skills especially for the grades 3-5 as this is the most critical time for the math education can impact the socio-economic growth factros (at least according to the author´s humble opinion) as we have garnered the overwhelming data to support this.
Also this is the critical time to reduce the global socio-economic inequality in the magnitude of order scale not by some petty % differences or a few factors.
Once the majority of the math poverty is eliminated, then very quickly the extreme or national poverty levels as well as the various forms of inequality will be drastically reduced without force and with peace as the math tends to impact the rest very holistically when the populace is empowered.
USL's primary objectives roughly consists of half socio-economical and the other half environment-energy-oriented: 1) to boost the global human capital using the revolutionary math/science education of USL, and then to help resolve all of the top 5 global causes within 20-25 years 2) to end the extreme poverty of the least developed countries (far faster than the expected Post-2015 plans), 3) to reduce the gender/ethnic gaps in STEM and earnings drastically 4) to narrow the gaps between the rich and the poor countries 5) will give the opportunity for people to be independent because of the way it helps people to think structurally 6) will give the opportunity for people to unleash their artistic creativity with all the time freed up, satisfying Ken Robinson's 3 requirements for education [USL 1 & 2 will take care of all of the global crises multiple times. For the rest of USL 2-5+ will be devoted to the empowering humanity and for the environments.] 7) ) to drastically reduce the college student loan debt crisis, starting with that of the USA in 1-2 years (that is over 1.2 Trillion of dollars as a show case first) and similarly to other countries, ... + will attempt to create new generations of Renaissance men and women + will reduce the global income inequality for more than 5-10 times over the next half a century than without … while ... + the users enjoy the extra free 5 years (of full-time job hours) of one's lives whether they are parents, students, or average adults who try to overcome your life-long traumas of math and science, or whether you are regular schoolers or home schoolers….
STEP 1) Math Education Reform USL 0.25 at the city and state government levels (advancing their regional average math skill levels by half a year, which normally takes 1-2-3 decades to most of the OECD countries, in just 1-2 years). STEP 2) Math Education Reform USL 0.5 at the state government levels (advancing their regional average math skill levels by 1 year, which normally takes 3-5 decades to most of the OECD countries, in just a few years). STEP 3) Math Education Reform USL 1 at the national government & the UN treaty levels (advancing their regional average math skill levels by 2 years, which (almost) never happened to virtuallly all of the OECD member countries, in just 2-5 years). For each of the following step, we will try to create local, regional, or national Social Enterprise for each government - if they are willing as the gains are tremendous potentially - to share the profits together. So the governments will have the 3-layered benefits: ... 1) USL 0.x will enrich not only the math education that helps each USL x participating regions, 2) but also to prosper together as Social Enterprise board members of the corresponding regions. 3) once the UN gets involved, then the certain portions of the massive surpluses to their local or regional economies will be properly redistributed for the global social, energy, environmental, equality and poverty causes.
The total costs to transition to at least 95% Renewable Energy worldwide will cost about 3-6% of GDPs over the next 30-50 years, which is about 7-10 times moer than the annual investments that most countries of the world are currently putting in. And the progress will be exceedingly slow. Instead with USL1-induced international treaty with the UN, this will be resolved breezily because the USL1-induced GDP growths during this time will be extra surplus of the 7-12 times of the entire current world economic size. 1) to accelerate the progress towards the resource-based, sustainable communities, environments, and the circular economy which is otherwise difficult to be achieved very quickly... 2) to transition to the at least 95% renewable energy in 15-30 years not longer 3) as such, carbon issues are automatically resolved and there will be no hassle after the first few decades 4) the current SE4All objectives of the UN can achieve their future versions of 2, 3 goals with USL 1.0 alone. 5) the various other environmental crises such as the Amazon deforestations, plastics, the Fukushima radiation crises, etc, can be all resolved to the extents that the economic infusions are necessary.