More money spent does not necessarily mean better education.
Posted on 12/03/2013 6:49:59 AM PST by SeekAndFind
The OECD is out with new global rankings of how students in various countries do in reading, science, and math. Results of the full survey can be found and delved into here.
You can see below how Asian countries are obliterating everyone else in these categories.
The United States, meanwhile, ranks below the OECD average in every category. And as the WSJ notes, the US has slipped in all of the major categories in recent years:
The results from the 2012 Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), which are being released on Tuesday, show that teenagers in the U.S. slipped from 25th to 31st in math since 2009; from 20th to 24th in science; and from 11th to 21st in reading, according to the National Center for Education Statistics, which gathers and analyzes the data in the U.S.
Here are the top countries
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The Remedy = 1-Home School 2- do away with union teachers
I wonder how per student spending in Asia stacks up against per student spending in the US. I’ll bet we got em licked there.
Hooray for No Child Left Behind!
More like EVERY Child Left Behind. I know, right?
Broken record alert: Pull your kids out of state run schools, people.
Well...yep, all that may be true, but our kids are politically correct, sensitive to the feelings of others, and morally agnostic. SO THERE!
Do I really need a sarc tag?
which he said would fix the education system already fixed by the 2001 GW Bush and Ted Kennedy legislation called “No Child Left Behind,”
which was supposed to fix a system supposedly already fixed by a 1994 piece of federal legislation called “Goals 2000,”
which was supposed to fix a system already fixed by “America 2000,”
which was a 1991 response during the Bush administration to a 1983 federal report on education called “A Nation at Risk,
which was published a full four years after Jimmy Carter first fixed the nation’s public school system by establishing a cabinet-level Department of Education in 1979.
Which have teachers unions?
I wonder if inner city schools effect the US average score at all.
1. If the US public schools did not coddle lazy, worthless POS kids, our scores would be comparable.
Nobody can get a zero. Everybody can redo and redo. Failing kids can “redeem” to pass by doing busy work.
2. If we separated the kids who can’t perform, our scores would be comparable.
We have kids with IQs in the upper 70s, 80s and 90s trying to learn the same math as kids with average and above IQs. In other countries, these kids aren’t in the same pool to measure.
In any event, government needs to be out of education - just like it needs to be out of health insurance.
Our kids.. especially those in CA.. would top the list in the areas of “famous gay people and their contributions” studies, “diversity awareness” and “self-esteem.”
I wonder if there is a correlation between education levels and presidential voting trends
The Asians are outscoring even the whites in reading; they must be racist...in fact as you can clearly see from this chart the Asians are more racist than whites...
No fair! They didn’t factor in how well the students were indoctrinated into loving socialist government!
From the above two charts, you see that if you do not include Blacks and Hispanics in our averages, we’re actually close to Japan and Singapore.
Again, is this a racist observation?
How reliable is the data? Can we believe that every student is counted and included in the statistics? What chance is there that data is being manipulated to make certain countries look good? Are we at the bottom because American’s are stupid or perhaps because we are fudging the numbers less than everybody else?
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