‘Two Million Minutes’ suggests it’s time to improve U.S. education – Los Angeles Times

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• Two Million Minutes,” a one-hour documentary comparing the educational experiences of six students: two Americans, two Indians and two Chinese.
• The movie, in (very) limited release, begins with the premise that the high school years span roughly 2 million minutes.
• one faculty member, Compton recalled, told him that “we have nothing to learn from Third World education.”
• Another, renowned education theorist Howard Gardner, took him to task for comparing the U.S. with China.