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JUDY WOODRUFF (Newshour): Now: preparing students for the digital economy. A new report out today finds younger Americans fall behind their peers in other industrialized countries when it comes to the math and technical skills needed for the modern workplace.
Special correspondent John Tulenko of Learning Matters looks at a program that tries to address that problem.
MAN: What do you actually think you need to have to be an entrepreneur?
STUDENT: You have to have drive and the willingness to go out there and do what has to be done to achieve your goal.
JOHN TULENKO: These 45 public high school students in New York City are taking big strides toward achieving their dreams.
BRANDON FRASER, student: I want to make the new Facebook, and that's what I'm going to do.
JOHN TULENKO: They're learning how to succeed as high-tech entrepreneurs in a free summer-long program called GenTech NYC.
Competing in teams, they will work to create fully functional, original cell phone apps, with business plans to support them. The program caters to students whose schools or circumstances cannot provide this kind of opportunity.
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