Russia has allowed few outsiders a real look at its educational system. Generally, Western educators have comfortably assumed that it lags far behind that of the West. But in Geneva last week, at an international conference of top education officials from 74 countries, the chief Soviet delegate, Mme. Ludmila Dubrovina, flatly challenged the U.S. to an educational "competition." If Mme. Dubrovina is to be believed, such a competition would be a good deal tougher than anyone had suspected. Among the recent Soviet advances in education, as listed by Dubrovina:
¶Russia requires six years of mathematics for pupils between the ages of 11...
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