RealClearSports: America Slipping in Schools and Sports
By Art Spander
For RealClearSports.com
On a quintessential American holiday, Thomas Friedman of the New York Times wrote of a now quintessential American problem, our decline in global competition.
The emphasis was academics. How half of the winners of Rhodes Scholarships, America's top grads, either were from other countries or the offspring of recent immigrants, students with last names such as Kang, Tauqeer, Alekeyeva and Nadathur.
Read the full story here.
© RealClearSports 2010
For RealClearSports.com
On a quintessential American holiday, Thomas Friedman of the New York Times wrote of a now quintessential American problem, our decline in global competition.
The emphasis was academics. How half of the winners of Rhodes Scholarships, America's top grads, either were from other countries or the offspring of recent immigrants, students with last names such as Kang, Tauqeer, Alekeyeva and Nadathur.
Read the full story here.
© RealClearSports 2010