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School grades need improvement

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Much has been written over the last decade about the abysmal state of the education arms race in the U.S., particularly in the STEM disciplines. Two recent reports show how little has been done to redirect that trend and what will happen if the spiral does not end.

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        cover image Communications of the ACM
        Communications of the ACM  Volume 53, Issue 12
        December 2010
        127 pages
        ISSN:0001-0782
        EISSN:1557-7317
        DOI:10.1145/1859204
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