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American workers whose inadequate basic skills dont measure up to corporations' increasingly high-tech jobs are an increasingly pervasive problem. Skilled foreigners are filling some of the void, but what corporate America really wants is better-educated kids.
Educators have known for at least a decade that the math and science skills of US. students decline precipitously after fourth grade, falling well behind other nations. But the heat got turned up on fixing the problem as American jobs grew more technology dependent. Early on, some hoped "just putting computers in the...