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Why it matters that Americans are comparatively bad at math

The Hechinger Report

It’s a threat to the nation’s global economic competitiveness and national security. Tennessee Tech runs a summer camp teaching cybersecurity, which requires math, to high school students. They say America’s poor math performance isn’t funny anymore. There’s already ample and dramatic evidence of this. Department of Education.

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The number of 18-year-olds is about to drop sharply, packing a wallop for colleges — and the economy 

The Hechinger Report

The impact of this is economic decline, Jeff Strohl, director of the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, said bluntly. Forty-three percent of them will require at least bachelors degrees by 2031, according to the Georgetown center. Related: Interested in innovations in higher education?

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