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Posted on YouTube: January 22, 2011
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Posted on DU: January 25, 2011
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On last Friday's
PBS NewsHour, Margaret Warner examined how South Korean students rank 2nd in the world in reading and 4th in math, ahead of American students. (
Transcript here) Kathleen Stephens, US ambassador to South Korea, was interviewed for this report and addressed the Obama administration's education reform agenda: "So, I have many Koreans who say to me, well, you know, Ambassador Stephens: If you know Korea so well, why aren't you explaining to President Obama that, really, our educational system is very problematical? Again, the education fever is too high here."