U.S. Slips in Attracting the World's Best Students
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American universities find themselves facing intense competition as other countries aggressively recruit foreign students.
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America may dominate the world in sports and culture but in one arena where size doesn't matter, the "Geography Olympics," the United States was 88th behind minnows such as Madagascar and the Marshall Islands.
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American public schools are struggling to attract and retain high-quality teachers. Is it time we paid them for performance?
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American eighth-grade students have made gains in math and science compared with their worldwide counterparts, but performance at the fourth-grade level appears to have reached a plateau, according to a major international study released yesterday.
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By Valerie Strauss, Washington Post Staff Writer  Scientist Robert P.H. Chang of Northwestern University had no trouble persuading education officials in Mexico to introduce the burgeoning field of nanotechnology to schools there, but it's been a far tougher sell in the United States.
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Â· Few institutions pass admission benchmarks Â· Russell Group blames low achievement at school
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Dropping out of high school has its costs around the globe, but nowhere steeper than in the United States.
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A number of leading public universities are drawing increasingly impressive and affluent students.
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Teenagers in Finland and Alberta rank at or near the top in international tests in math, science and reading, but that's where the similarities end.
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Recent experiments show how hard it can be to balance academic success and socioeconomic and racial diversity.
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Disadvantaged children lagging a full year behind before they start school.
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As more college presidents drop out of U.S. News' popular rankings, hundreds of schools are helping put together a consumer-friendly alternative
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PARIS - Canadian math students are being outperformed by those six other countries, including Hong Kong and Finland, according to an international study.
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The number of students choosing to take university courses abroad has more than doubled in recent years.
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For the first time, an international study is showing the gap between top and bottom students appears to be closing. The Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study assesses students in 25 countries
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Soft and slow Complacency and incompetence continue to plague a US education system that has fallen well behind other nations, according US Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings.â¦
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Fourth- and eighth-grade American students still have work to do to catch up with their counterparts in Asian countries in math and science, international school officials reported Tuesday.