Boy, isn't it nice to read some good news for a change? This should put to rest some of the whining we've been reading from Bill Gates and other captains of industry in this country along the lines of, "well, gosh, of course I have to hire programmers in Mumbai or Singapore instead of keeping the jobs in this country because they have the math skills and our kids don't."
(Of course, as we know, offshore workers get paid a fraction of what their counterparts in this country earn, and with no bennies. But of course that doesn't factor into the discussion. Sure it doesn't.)
A dark cloud in the story, though, is a decrease in the verbal scores. Students have to be able to think, reason, and communicate as well (oh, but that's that dreaded liberal bias on college campuses seeping in again with a thought like that, as that right-wing ass David Horowitz would cry. Yes siree...let's all read up on "intelligent design" and travel to Kansas and burn some more books. Yee hah!).
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