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    A recent survey of teenagers by the education advocacy group Common Core found that a quarter could not identify Adolf Hitler, a third did not know that the Bill of Rights guaranteed freedom of speech and religion, and fewer than half knew that the Civil War took place between 1850 and 1900. "We have one of the highest dropout rates in the industrialized world" said Allan Golston, the president of U.S. programs for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Full Article at Columbus Dispatch
    We have one of the highest dropout rates in the industrialized world
    SOURCE: Columbus Dispatch 19 months ago
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  1. When I compare our high schools with what I see when I'm traveling abroad, I am terrified for our work force of tomorrow.
    SOURCE: Columbus Dispatch 19 months ago
  2. By obsolete, I don't just mean that they are broken, flawed or underfunded, though a case could be made for every one of those points. By obsolete, I mean our high schools -- even when they're working as designed -- cannot teach all our students what they need to know today.
    SOURCE: Columbus Dispatch 19 months ago
  3. In math and science, for example, our fourth-graders are among the top students globally. By roughly eighth grade, they're in the middle of the pack. And by the 12th grade, U.S. students are scoring generally near the bottom of all industrialized countries.
    SOURCE: Columbus Dispatch 19 months ago

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