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The current education method in America is working aptly, says Bob Bowdon, but only for some — and those few surely aren’t the students. In his education docudrama “The Cartel,” Bowdon, a TV news reporter in New Jersey, paints a terrific ugly scene of the institutional degeneracy that has resulted in pretty much incredible wastes of taxpayer money. It’s not operose for Bowdon to illustrate that something’s terribly awry with a state that pays $17,000 per pupil but can only manage a 39% reading proficiency rate — that there’s a crisis is undeniable, how to deal with it is another question altogether.