It showed that the share of 12th-grade students lacking even basic high school reading skills — meaning they could not, for example, extract data about train fares at different times of day from a brochure — rose to 27 percent from 20 percent in 1992.
This is not good. The luxury of education - being rich enough that we can take time to learn - is one of the main advantages the US has over the rest of the world. We need smart people - smart kids - to remain competitive, and there are limits to how many we can import (and how many will want to stay).
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