CNNW CNN Presents November 7, 2011
take a rough look. 100 representative american kids entering high school. what does fate have in store for them? 28 of that 500 won't graduate. a total of 50 won't go to college, so that is half of the class that won't go on to higher education. 50 will at the end college, but only 22 will graduate within six years. meanwhile, other countries are outsmarting us. on a recent international test, u.s. students ranked only 15th in the world in reading and 23rd in science and 31st in math. overall, the world economic forum ranks the quality of our education at 26th. what's odd is that we ...
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