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Riley On Education

The Department of Education today released its annual report on the demographics of the nation's schoolchildren. The number of students is at an all-time high, prompting concerns that school construction is not keeping up with the "baby boom echo," the increase in students resulting from many baby boomers having children later in life. NPR's Claudio Sanchez reports.

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