Published: January 4, 2007

Losing Global Ground

The U.S. education system no longer stacks up as favorably as it once did when compared with those of other prosperous countries.

For decades, a highly qualified workforce has helped fuel economic prosperity in the United States. But now other countries are catching up with and even surpassing America’s performance.

On a variety of measures, “the U.S. has been joined by a number of other countries,” says Alan P. Wagner, a professor of educational administration at the State University of New York at Albany, “and particularly in the younger age groups, there is evidence of higher levels of performance elsewhere.”

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