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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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Vydáno v:Knight Ridder Tribune Business News s. 1
Hlavní autor: Reed, Fred
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Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Washington Tribune Content Agency LLC 24.12.2005
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Shrnutí: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. ..."