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Alarm Over Quality of U.S. Education

Parents, educators and employers have voiced new concerns about the quality of American education in the last several years. The worry is that elementary and secondary schools are turning out increasing numbers of high school graduates who are weak in the basic skills of reading, writing and arithmetic. Declining test scores on national and state examinations since the mid-1960s also have prompted questions about the nation's ...

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