U.S. kids losing education race to peers in China, India

Jim Landers — Dallas Morning News

WASHINGTON – "Scared straight," an old tactic of the war on drugs, is making an appearance in the war on ignorance in a new film called 2 Million Minutes.

Math, science and engineering educators have been warning for years that American failings are pushing jobs and investment to better-trained foreign workers.

The issue hasn't caught fire in the presidential campaign. And the public doesn't seem to share the urgency, either.

Maybe the kids will listen.

2 Million Minutes argues that "the battle for America's economic future isn't being fought by our government. It's being fought by our kids."

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