Student Scores Stagnate: No Country Left Behind?

by Mike Smith · 2009-08-28 05:27:00 UTC
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Seven years after No Child Left Behind, now the whole country may be missing out. American children are not getting any smarter or any dumber, explained Arne Duncan last week, but he feared stagnation and complacency would not be good enough for the U.S. to compete globally. Numbers cited by Duncan last week found that in science, the United States is falling behind Canada, Japan and the Czech Republic. Duncan explained "I think as a real economic imperative we have to educate our way to a better economy."

Meanwhile, Chinese State Councilor Liu Yandong met Henry Tzu-Yow Yang, chancellor of the University of California and Jean-Lou Chameau, president of California Institute of Technology, in Beijing on Thursday in order to promote bi-lateral humanistic and talent exchanges in higher education. Seems both countries appreciate that they have a lot to learn.

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Mike Smith is associate editor at Change.org.
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