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Article: Wasting brains.(Germany's school system )
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- February 11, 2006
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Germany's school system fails to make the most of the country's human capital
WHAT is the best way of measuring improvements in a school system? Grades, perhaps; or the proportion of students getting a high-school diploma. In Germany, though, it may be the number of cafeterias in schools. Hundreds are being built in a nationwide effort to create the infrastructure that will allow schools to operate all day so that children can spend more time learning, instead of being sent home in time for a hot lunch.
Yet this construction activity also shows how far Germany still has to go to modernise its school system, and to ...