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自20世纪二十年代,BAMA公司一直在俄克拉荷马州生产饼干与糕饼。但如今该公司却苦于从当地找不到有技术、能胜任最基本生产岗位的合适人选。当地学校的毕业生大多阅读能力差,简单的数学题也做不了。因此,最近公司决定去波兰开辟新厂——它在欧洲的第一家。过去十年间,波兰的教育取得了长足进步。2000年以前,波兰农村一半的成年人只读完小学。但如今波兰学生在科学与数学方面的世界排名已跃居美国之前。波兰哪儿做得好?美国又差在哪里?美国记者Amada Ripley在其新问世的《世界上最聪明
Since the 1920s, BAMA has been producing cookies and pastries in Oklahoma. But now the company is struggling to find a suitable candidate for the job with the most basic manufacturing jobs from a local area. Most of the local school graduates have poor reading ability and can not do simple math problems. As a result, the company recently decided to open a new plant in Poland - its first in Europe. Education in Poland has made great strides over the past decade. By 2000, half of adults in rural Poland had only completed primary school. But now Polish students rank before the United States in world rankings in science and mathematics. Where is the United States doing well and where is the United States? American journalist Amada Ripley in his new advent of "the world’s smartest