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United States Education Secretary Margaret Spellings on Friday cited the growing number of college graduates in India and China to drive home her point that the United States needs to be serious about education reform.
Addressing the Education Writers Association in Florida, Spellings said that for too many American students, a high school diploma has become little more than a `certificate of attendance` because millions of children have been given a seat in the classroom but not a meaningful and useful education.
She argued that the achievement gap hurts all Americans by undercutting America`s leadership in the world. She said students in this country are losing interest in science and mathematics as they advance through the educational system while economic competitors such as China and India increasingly fill the gap.
Our nation`s leadership position in the world is being challenged. For example, 38 percent of bachelor`s degrees in China were awarded in engineering as opposed to less than six percent in the US. In the decade from 1990 to 2000, India increased its number of students enrolled in college by 92 percent, Spellings said.
She cited Intel CEO Craig Barrett, who noted that 2.5 billion people have joined the world market with China, India and Russia in the World Trade Organisation.
She said even if ten percent of them are highly educated, that still means 250 million new competitors that America will face.
She said that President`s Council of Advisors on Science and technology reports that American students are losing interest and science.
We must turn this around. I am optimistic after seeing the nation`s governors and respected leaders, such as Bill Gates, come together and call for reform of our high schools. It is urgently needed and it is something in which the President and I strongly believe.
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