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Dec. 24--FOREIGN WORKERS BETTER SCHOOLED: Whither the U.S. economy? When I want to be cleverly aphoristic, I find myself saying that China will do all the manufacturing, India the programming and design, and Mexican immigrants the construction, leaving Americans as midlevel bureaucrats managing each...

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Published in:	Knight Ridder Tribune Business News p. 1
Main Author:	Reed, Fred
Format:	Newsletter
Language:	English
Published:	Washington Tribune Content Agency LLC 24.12.2005
Subjects:	Alliances Asian people Automation Automobiles Banking Banking industry Blogs Blood vessels Blues music Boats Bombs Brice, Philippa Carbon Cellular telephones Censorship Computer & video games Computer viruses Computers Copyright Cybercrime Cybersecurity Diabetes Diabetic retinopathy Dictionaries Digital cameras Digitization Disease prevention E-books Earth Electronic games Employees Engineering firms Entertainment industry Fingerprinting Freedom of the press Genetic engineering Genetic testing Glucose Gravity Gregory, Ken Hogs Hormone replacement therapy Identity theft Illiteracy Infusion pumps Insulin Insurance industry Intelligence Internet Internet service providers Internet telephony JavaScript Journalism Keyboards Linux Literacy Litigation Malware Mars Marxism Meteors & meteorites Military personnel Mitochondrial DNA Money laundering Monopolies Moon Morality Motion pictures Music Musical performances Musicians & conductors Nielsen ratings Offshore Open source software Operating systems Passports & visas Passwords Personal computers Photography Piracy Political correctness Profits Radio frequency identification Robotics Satellites Schools Sea level Semiconductors Sensors Service introduction Singers Software Sound waves Space exploration Space shuttle Students Surveillance Tax evasion Teachers Television programs Totalitarianism Traffic congestion Tutoring Veins & arteries Viral infections War Websites Womens health Writers Y chromosomes
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Summary:	Dec. 24--FOREIGN WORKERS BETTER SCHOOLED: Whither the U.S. economy? When I want to be cleverly aphoristic, I find myself saying that China will do all the manufacturing, India the programming and design, and Mexican immigrants the construction, leaving Americans as midlevel bureaucrats managing each other. Is the performance of non-U.S.-citizen Asians only the result of their intelligence and studiousness? No. In part they excel because American schooling is deteriorating. From "Inside Higher Ed," based on the National Assessment of Adult Literacy: "Not only does [the National Assessment] find that the average literacy of college-educated Americans declined significantly from 1992 to 2003, but it also reveals that just 25 percent of college graduates -- and only 31 percent of those with at least some graduate studies -- scored high enough on the tests to be deemed 'proficient' from a literacy standpoint. ..."