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This post is part of a fifteen-part series on Selecting Your College and Degree article. The compilation of this series will be available soon in ebook format and can be downloaded from our free resource section.

For Dorothy, there was only one yellow brick road in Oz and this was indeed the path she should take in order to get home. Unfortunately for future college students each school represents a possible yellow brick road and there’s no Good Witch, Wizard, or pair of ruby slippers to help them determine the ideal college for them. Rather, they have no choice but to rely on their own powers of deduction in order to choose the right school to enroll.
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Education is the key to any countries economic success. For a country to be economically sound, the business and industry within that country must be financially prosperous. In todays high tech world economy, businesses and industries need well educated employees to prosper. Therefore, the deterioration of a countries educational system should be considered a major economic problem. Between 1965 and 1980, the performance of American students dramatically declined, the educational system fell backwards, and it is affecting todays schools, as well as the future of the US’s work force.

During that 15 year period, US students’ test scores severely dropped in comparison to other industrial countries. After 1980, the dropping scores leveled off, and recently, they have begun in increase. But American students must play catch-up with the rest of the world, and todays public school system is not prepared to facilitate the major leap forward that our educational system needs.
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