What Went Wrong With America's Schools?
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Education is the key to any countries economic success. For a country
to be economically sound, the business and industry within that country must be
financially prosperous. In todays high tech world economy, businesses and
industries need well educated employees to prosper. Therefore, the
det ....
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.... 1965, America's public school system was producing better
educated students with less money and fewer supplies than today. Each class was
approximately 40% larger than today's classes, and they functioned with about
one-third of the real dollar expenditures of present day schools. They taught
with fewer books and less equipment, and did not have any of todays audio-visual
material and equipment. Then, between 1965 and 1980, real dollar expenditures
per student doubled as teach ....
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