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To: bentway who wrote (519672)	10/10/2009 12:45:27 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576360

Harvard is still No. 1. But the United States? It better look over its shoulder – both East and West. OK. The US still leads the global pack in top-notch universities – according to the London-based Times Higher Education-QS World University Rankings. From sea (CalTech) to shining sea (Harvard, Yale, M.I.T, Princeton – you choose), Americans still have the high-quality teaching, top-flight research labs, and, most likely, the iconic ivy-draped quads that beckon like glittering gold to young scholars around the globe. That explains why the US holds 54 of the top 200 universities in the Times/QS survey (32 in the top 100). But Britain, Japan, Hong Kong, and South Korea, among others, are stealing precious turf. How long will our universities remain strong when we have schools like in Chicago and most big cities, or schools in the South that pay lip service to evolution and instead emphasize creationism. For a long time, the US has been an educational powerhouse because our universities have been strong and attracted students from all over the globe but as other countries power up their own universities and America's lower schools turn out mediocre product, our universities can only start to suffer.