In article <d9t7u0$mth$1@caraway.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp>, 
fuzakenbo@hotmail.com says...
> 
> "Vernon North" <verno@oyama.bc.ca> wrote in message 
> news:MPG.1d2bb231b36701aa98a1d8@shawnews.vc.shawcable.net...
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> > "American high school students have a poorer mastery of basic math
> > concepts than their counterparts in most other leading industrialized
> > nations, according to a major international survey released yesterday."
> 
> (etc. snipped.)
> 
> Doesn't American high school education tend to be more broad than in other 
> countries? European countries tend to specialize much earlier. The same goes 
> for universities, I believe.

Is that why so many educators and others in the US are upset about the 
poor levels of English and Math literacy in US schools?
> 
> Anyway, the level of American science is number one in the world. So common 
> sense tells us that the education system must be doing something right.
> 
You mean the kind of common sense taught in the US school system?  I 
think you should do your homework.  Google on this a bit and you'll be 
appalled.

Verno