Roland Zullo, a research scientist at the University of Michigan, says organized labor is rolling with the punches and learning how to survive in spite of vanishing manufacturing jobs.

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Poor children tend to have lower test scores, perhaps because their parents are too busy trying to make enough money to survive and don't emphasize learning at home.

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Those who remain dependent on the traditional unnetworked information-delivery world of learning will manage, if they're lucky, just to survive.

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