take a rough look. 100 representative american kids entering high school. what does fate have in store for them? 28 of that 500 won t graduate. a total of 50 won t go to college, so that is half of the class that won t go on to higher education. 50 will at the end college, but only 22 will graduate within six years. meanwhile, other countries are outsmarting us. on a recent international test, u.s. students ranked only 15th in the world in reading and 23rd in science and 31st in math. overall, the world economic forum ranks the quality of our education at 26th. what s odd is that we have been out spending most of the developed countries by a long shot n. 2007, we spent over $10,000 per student versus the $7,400 average for rich countries. how can we spend so much money and have so little to show for it? we will ask that question and others to some of the leading figures in american education here on this special and time essay, and we will talk to the man who spent billions
of the live strong cancer charity he founded. he stepped away from that organization, following the ruling that stripped him of seven tour de france titles. he is banned from competitive cycling forever. it could open him up to a set of new legal troubles. the feds are deciding whether to join the lawsuit, claiming that lance armstrong defrauded his former team sponsor, the united states postal service read, the federal government. we have more on this story this afternoon. why oprah? do we know that yet? reporter: no. a lot of critics are asking the very same thing. remember, after the interview, oprah said that lance armstrong came, quote, ready. now people are asking, did oprah come to that interview ready? oprah said today on cbs that she read and studied for this like a college exam. she came in with 112 prepared questions. you heard her earlier say, he didn t come clean in the manner she expected. but later she said, she was
more years in the classroom than their american counterparts. after classes let up, sung-do studies for hours in a school cubicle and takes his dinner in a school cafeteria. he ll sometimes go to a late night cram school known in korea as a hagwon, nocturnal schools for kids offering classes in science, math or any other subject that s covered on the big college exam. after-school instruction is very popular here, enrolling three-quarters of the nation s students. the average korean family spends roughly 20% of their income on private tutoring. back home, sung-do usually continues his studies well after midnight. it s true that study hours is horrible. i i believe that i might enjoy