About Freakin' Time

Finally, a news story about how bad some other country's students are in a subject. A survey of Japanese high schoolers found that 24% could not find North Korea and more than 40% could not find Iraq. That doesn't excuse the sad state of American secondary education, since the Japanses students probably still did better than American kids would do on a test of Geography of Countries Whose Invasions or Diplomacy We Are Not Leading (I think we're down to Lichtenstein), but still. When most of the news out of the field of education is about how our high schools are turning out mobs of illiterate, drooling morons, isn't it nice to hear that the other countries aren't perfect?