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Yahoo! News: Education News

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Education News


WHY IT MATTERS: Education

Posted: 22 Oct 2016 12:20 AM PDT

FILE - Int his Jan. 15, 2014, file photo, Algebra II books sit lined up in a high school math class at Flower Mound High School in Flower Mound, Texas. Hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars are spent each year on the country's public schools. The U.S. has record-high graduation rates, 82 percent, but also stubborn achievement gaps and dismally lagging math and reading scores compared with other countries. And university degrees are leaving millions mired in debt. Few issues touch the lives of families like the state of education. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — THE ISSUE: Hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars are spent each year on the country's public schools. The U.S. has a record-high graduation rates, 83 percent, but also stubborn achievement gaps and dismally lagging math and reading scores compared with other countries. And university degrees are leaving millions mired in debt. Few issues touch the lives of families like the state of education.


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