Welcome news for America’s much-maligned educational system arrived Monday, when a Department of Education study revealed that U.S. students rank first in the world in the field of TV jingle recall.
“This is tremendous,” U.S. Secretary of Education Richard Riley said. “It finally proves that the youth of America can compete. Thanks to their hard work and years of dedicated television-watching, our children will have the edge in the highly competitive TV-jingle-based economy of the 21st century.”
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“Each nation has academic areas in which it excels, be it math, foreign language or history,” Riley said. “When it comes to ad recognition and recall, the U.S. truly is ‘the real thing.’”
— Report: U.S. Students Lead World In TV Jingle Recall | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source
