High-Powered Panel Warns That American Kids Can’t Compete With Global Peers
A bipartisan panel is warning that America’s students are falling behind those in even some of the poorest countries, CBS News correspondent Thalia Assuras reports.
“I am really worried about where this country is,” says ex-Sen. Bill Brock, a former Secretary of Labor. “We’ve got an information world, we’re networked to the rest of the world, it’s a global economy and we’re not preparing our young people for that world.”
Students from Asia to Europe outperform Americans on tests. Thirty years ago, the U.S. boasted 30 percent of the world’s college students. That figure is now 14 percent. Meanwhile, most other industrialized nations educate their 16-year olds at a college level.
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