How Shakespeare Can Save Our Kids

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LOOKING at American education today is like standing on a narrow little plateau on top of a foothill, with two stark views. Looking down, most of us can now see the final descent that would take us the rest of the way into the land of low-skill, low-wage workers. The latest SAT results show us a little closer to the edge: our national average on the verbal half of the test, reported annually since 1952, hit a new low in 1991.