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To: Road Walker who wrote (456666)	2/15/2009 11:20:24 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) of 1576385

That’s a hefty sum — by comparison, the Education Department’s entire discretionary budget for the year was $59 billion — and it will save America’s schools from the catastrophe that they were facing. A University of Washington study had calculated that the recession would lead to cuts of 574,000 school jobs without a stimulus. “We dodged a bullet the size of a freight train,” notes Amy Wilkins of the Education Trust, an advocacy group in Washington. The state of education in this country is pretty abysmal. For too long, we have depended on universities to attract the best and the brightest from other countries. I think that's how we have maintained our innovative edge and not because we are turning out well educated Americans. The danger, of course, is that the best and the brightest may no longer want to stay after they finish their university education.....or worse, if the universities in their home countries improve to the point that they are the equivalent or even better than those in the US, they may not come here at all. For that and many other reasons, it behooves us to get the American educational system off of its starvation diet asap.

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