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Up To One Third Of American High School Seniors Aren't Ready For The Real World

By Rodger Doyle   

 
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For years, we have heard that Europeans and the Japanese so outshine Americans educationally that U.S. economic and technological dominance is threatened. But such pronouncements are dubious for several reasons, including the technical difficulty of making valid comparisons between Americans and others whose cultures and circumstances differ markedly.

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