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| DATE | 2004-06-29 |
| FROM | From: "Inker, Evan"
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [hangout] AMERICAN KIDS LOSING EDUCATION BATTLE
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This is something I've been saying for the past 10 years
Nice to see others feel the same way too!!!!
AMERICAN KIDS LOSING EDUCATION BATTLE
http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/26584.htm
By DAVID SEIFMAN
June 29, 2004 -- Unless failing public schools are turned around, kids here
are going to lose jobs to better-educated youngsters half a world away, News
Corporation Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch warned yesterday.
In a speech before the New York City Leadership Academy, Murdoch said the
city's 1.1 million schoolchildren aren't competing against their
counterparts in other American cities, such as Houston, Atlanta or Seattle.
"They are competing against New Delhi and Shanghai and Seoul," Murdoch
declared. "And let me say it plainly: Our students are losing."
In 30 years, he said, Asia is expected to generate "more than half the
economic activity on the planet," and those jobs will go to those able to
perform complex tasks in a global, information-driven society.
"Unless we get education right, this new American century may not last more
than a couple of decades," said Murdoch, who challenged other corporate
executives to support school reform.
"Frankly, I think too few of my peers in the corporate world are stepping up
to that responsibility to support the schools," he said. "After all, their
corporations will be some of the major beneficiaries if this initiative
works.
"Many of us talk about education. It's time for more of us to put our money
where our mouth is."
Murdoch's speech was the first such annual academy lecture, which is named
for him.
The academy was opened last year to train school principals. The first class
of 77 will graduate soon.
City officials said News Corporation - owner of The Post - has contributed
$5 million over three years to help fund the academy, which is trying to
raise $75 million.
Murdoch praised the academy, telling educators assembled at the Museum of
Jewish Heritage, "The work you are doing goes to the very marrow of what
matters."
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