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U.S. losing ground or just propaganda?

An article posted by the San Francisco Chronicle claims that the US had its worst performance this year in 29 years of the annual Association for Computing Machinery International Collegiate Programming Contest. Is this further proof of a decline in science and math education in the US? Or is the poor US performance in this contest just that, a poor performance rather than any real indicator of overall educational deficiency?

In the article, Georgia Institute of Technology Professor Jim Foley says it’s the former, proclaiming

the educational system has done a demonstrably poor job of (teaching) technical, scientific and computing.

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