Parents, time to panic about our kids' education - CNN.com
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In the span of one generation, we've fallen from first to ninth in the proportion of young people with college degrees, which I guess isn't a total surprise considering newly released ACT scores revealed that only one high school graduate in four in the class of 2011 could meet the benchmarks for college readiness in all four core subjects. Combine that with our global ranking of 14th in reading, 17th in science and 25th in math, and it would seem our education standing is in far worse shape today than our basketball footing was in 1988.