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For longer, whether music lessons, whether sports, academics you're going to be better at it. >> amanda, do you agree with it? >> it's complicated. on one hand i think that's true in many countries, they are spending more time in school. on the other hand, other countries spend the same time in school like finland. american teenagers do more hours of homework than some students in some countries. what matter most is not quantity but quality. they are being asked to do work that maybe doesn't make them think much for themselves and i can see that mirrors in these results where the kinds of math...

Are doing well on are basic problems that require them to deliver the result, and the kinds of problems they are really struggling with compared to peers around the world involve thinking, taking a real world problem like say figuring out the tip at a restaurant and turning it into math mat kill thinking. those things we know are valuable in the economy today, higher order skills are being neglected in the u.s. >> right, that seems particularly scary. >> anderson, what is most scary about it along those lines, until about ten years ago, one consolation was the very best american students did p...