Currently our mental measures focus on literacy, education and innovation. Positive innovation is a bi-product of sound education and values. Without values we ultimately experience pain and even destruction. With well founded values we develop wisdom and we focus on positive innovation. Innovation is critical to our physical (e.g., economy, defense, crime, health and the environment), social and spiritual well-being.
Sources: http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard
Source:http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/educ-attn.html
Source: http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/educ-attn.html
U.S. Scorecard 
[…] Mental: brain drain, growing competitiveness of foreign countries […]
The You Tube presentation “Did you Know?” did not accurately portray the role of mathematics given in the slide “We are currently preparing students for jobs that don’t yet exist…”
The mathematics does not change. The models used to illustrate how math may be used are not intended to be models of the future. The learner should master the use of the math for whatever situation may occur.