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The Two Million Minutes Blog:...deeper insights into education in China, India and the United States, and the challenge America faces

By Eric - Sep 6th, 2008 at 5:45 pm EDT

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BOSTON GLOBE ARTICLE - India & the OlympicsGoing for gold in India

By Derrick Z. Jackson

Globe Columnist / August 23, 2008

...As China and the United States produce athletes in very different, yet equally obsessive ways - and as we treat college and pro athletes as demigods and allow our children to become enslaved to high school coaches and suburban soccer programs - India is producing brainpower....

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http://www.2mminutes.com/

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Think American education standards are higher than the Third World – well why not have your 11th or 12th grade son or daughter try the Third World Challenge? After all in just a few more years the challenge will be in the marketplace for high paying jobs – might as well find out now if your son or daughter is competitive.

Sincerely,

Bob Compton
Executive Producer
Two Million Minutes

http://www.2mminutes.com/third-world-challenge.html

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