Now we must make our public elementary and secondary schools the world's best as well.
What Salman Khan and his Khan Academy did for elementary and secondary education, offering world-class instruction online for free, will soon be replicated throughout academia.
And if it does, someday soon America's primary and secondary schools will be world leaders, instead of the disgraceful laggards too many of them are today.
But for Lythgoe, crowning the next best dancer in the world is secondary to his plight which is to inspire youth to get fit through dance.
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The country also has the lowest enrollment rate in the world for secondary education and only eight percent of women know how to read and write.
In the clique-filled world of secondary school there is a clear social hierarchy, and researchers at the University of Michigan believe they've found the formula that unlocks its secrets.
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The competition attracted over 13, 000 entrants from primary and secondary schools from around the world.
Instead of cutting education benefits, raise them to remain a world leader in secondary education and produce a highly qualified workforce of knowledge workers.
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One of those opinions confirms the conventional wisdom that U.S. higher education, especially at our elite research universities, is world class while primary and secondary education, especially in our big city school systems, are lagging badly.
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Our spending per pupil for elementary and secondary education is about the highest in the world.
Moreover, star professors will beget star teachers on the secondary level, as Salman Khan of the world-famous Khan Academy has already demonstrated.
Yet, we still have a secondary public education system that ranks with Third World countries in preparing our children in English-language arts, mathematics, science and social studies.
What the hardware is that goes underneath Oracle (or Ingres etc, the other relational databases, if any of them still exist so long ago was my involvement in this world) is very much a secondary consideration.
This progresses upwards with increasing complexity to the end of secondary level education - where a study of world history requires an analysis of the role of specified Russian leaders in the break-up of the Soviet Union.
Yet a child in the last grade of primary only has at best a 75% chance of making the transition to lower secondary school in about 20 countries around the world, the overwhelming majority of which are in sub-Saharan Africa.
It was the first time the Church of England had been involved in secondary education in Knowsley, and promised students a "world-class education".
According to UNESCO and the World Bank, nearly 400 million elementary- and secondary-age children are not attending school.
World Water Day 2004: public outreach programme, secondary school essay competition, radio programme, expositions with literature, hydrologic models, etc.
The council is planning to build seven new secondary schools and invest millions of pounds in the Ironbridge Gorge World Heritage Site.
Eighty percent of the population is unbanked and enrollment in secondary and higher education lags well behind the rest of the world.
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Science has full reign in explaining the world around us in terms of how things happen (secondary causes).
As the U.S. had a more open educational system in place by the end of the 19th century, it was able to educate its citizens to the secondary level earlier and in greater numbers than anywhere else in the world.
And as the club begins the playoffs in pursuit of its second World Series appearance in three years, machinations in the secondary ticket market show few locals are willing to fork over the kind of money for seats that fans in other playoff markets are.
Secondary searches are also being introduced much more widely at airports around the world, CNN's Richard Quest reported.
However, as the first-world shifts more and more positions overseas, and post-secondary enrollments continues to climb year after year, the laws of supply and demand are pointing to the contrary.
One consequence of Haiti's poverty trap is that 84% of Haitians with more than a secondary education lived abroad in 2000, according to a study cited by the World Bank.
For many, it's now only a matter of time before the Chinese currency displaces the dollar as the world's reserve currency - or at least becomes a major secondary reserve currency like, er, the euro or the yen.
The President and the Director-General recognized the leading role that Uruguay has played in ICT in education due to its CEIBAL Campaign -- Uruguay was the first country in the world with a successful policy of universal delivery of a laptop to every primary and lower secondary student.
The program administered by NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the National Science Foundation, and the State Department is a hands-on, primary and secondary school-based, science and education program that facilitates collaboration among students, teachers, and scientists around the world as they perform inquiry-based investigations of the environment and Earth systems.
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And what that means is our workers have to be better trained than we've ever been, which means we've got to make sure our education system is the best in the world, and that our kids are going to -- (applause) -- get secondary school and community college and university educations.
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