Indian Math Challenge

Producers of Two Million Minutes, a documentary critical of the U.S. educational system, are daring American high school kids to take "The Third World Challenge," which, they say, "is a shortened and greatly simplified version of the multi-day proficiency test that every 10th grader in India must pass to go on to the 11th grade."

Says Bob Compton, executive producer, of the documentary: "If our athletic performance at the Olympics were as poor as our global academic performance it would be a national crisis and every level of government would be attempting to respond. That we blithely ignore the declining intellectual standards of American students seems almost insane."

The test is available at http://www.2mminutes.com/third-world-challenge.asp