"As former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush noted in the keynote address Dec. 1 at his Foundation for Excellence in Education, right now only one-third of U.S. students graduate from high school ready for college or careers.
Another third don’t graduate at all, and another third require remedial work either in college or the workplace. “Those numbers are shameful,” he said.
And they are dangerous to the country’s future, as demonstrated by the latest report of the Program for International Student Assessment, which ranked U.S. students 23rd in the world in science, 32nd in math and 17th in reading.
The U.S. trailed all its major competitors and trading partners in Europe and Asia, notably in advanced regions of China.
Scott Gordon
Gordon told the House Committee on Education and Labor, of 20,000 students who enter first grade each year, only 3,000 are likely to graduate from college."
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Well we just need to give the Schools more money. Come everyone knows you get what you pay for. So if 1/3 is what we're getting for our money just give them 2/3 more. I can figur that alt and im a gradiate of publik skule. it aint roket surgry peple.
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