Sentence examples for grim education from inspiring English sources

The statistics are grim: education spending in America has increased to $9,000 per student today, versus $4,300 in 1971 (adjusted for inflation), yet math and reading scores in the country have both flatlined.

Amanda Ripley, an American journalist, seeks to answer such questions in "The Smartest Kids in the World", her fine new book about the schools that are working around the globe.Though America's grim education results come in for special drubbing in this book, the country is not alone in failing to teach its children how to think critically.

China was virtually paralyzed from 1966-1976: theconomymy broke down, education ceased, millions starved or were thrown into grim labor camps.

Frightened women huddle under burqas, book burnings commence and the professional class is purged in grim re-education camps.

And it's another example of the grim phenomenon of education being caught up in violence or deliberately targeted.

The already grim Illinois public education budget got even bleaker Monday, with the announcement that a desperately-needed infusion of federal cash is not coming.

Without an overhaul of money and personnel, the future of Catholic education is grim.

The Curve paints a fairly grim picture of legal education, particularly at the lower levels -- Manhattan Law School is not a happy place.

Instead, he invested tens of millions in founding a new Georgian university, one that would stand out in the grim landscape of post-Soviet education.

"The situation in public higher education is extremely grim, bordering on absolutely disastrous, and in Wisconsin, it's been especially, let's say, dramatic," Mr. Randel said.

But there's no escaping the grim childhood experiences that made education such a passion.