China Stomps USA In International Education Test

Liberty Juice ^ | 12/08/2010 | Chris Bounds

[ChrisBoundsTX]

The results are in for the 2009 Program for International Students Assessment test of 15 year olds students from 65 different countries.

The assessment included math, science, and reading tests. So how did the the United States of America do in the results tally? Not well at all. Here is a look at our placement in the tests and a few countries that embarrassingly scored better:

Reading - 17th: Shanghai and Hong Kong, china, Belgium, Estonia, Iceland

Science - 23rd(One Point Above Average): Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Macao, China, Estonia, Liechtenstein, Slovenia, Hungary

Math - 31st (Below Average): Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Macao, China, Taiwan, Liechtenstein, Estonia, Iceland, Denmark, Slovenia, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Luxembourg,

Click here for the complete results chart.

Now that you've been pumped up with excitement of how your hard earned tax dollars that fund public education and the multitude of government run education initiatives are going, I'd like to share a few things with you again.

First, this little girl is going to tell you what she learned after a full year in school:

Video

Interesting, huh? We did place best in reading so maybe that little girl is in one of the bad luck schools. Ok, fine. Let's take a look at this chart from Andrew Coulson at the Cato Institute which shows federal spending per student and test score results since 1970:

Chart

Does that chart bake your noodle? With that kind of skyrocketing expense you'd expect some results, right?

Well, the Department of Education may be getting a $4 billion funding increase in 2011. Why not, just look at the results so far! No wonder we did so poorly in math.

[SampleMan]

I’ve never really thought that Webster would catch on. I’m more of a 17th century man of letters with my spelyng.

[ChrisBoundsTX]

I’m sure it is true in many cases that private schools have strict standards for admission. Even still a study with their performance vs. the top performers in public schools would be interesting. I’m not sure if that has been done before. I do know that private schools have been largely successful. The school voucher program is good evidence that they perform better than public schools. Glenn Beck did a good job laying out the statistics in Arguing with Idiots. Its not surprising why Obama killed the program in D.C. He has to keep the failing public schools well funded to keep the Democrat voting bloc happy. Home schooling is another issue along the lines of private schools. Home schooled students have skyrocket – specifically in Texas. I’ll leave you to ponder why that number has jumped. A little on home schooling and private schools here.

[Moltke]

I’ve never really thought that Webster would catch on. I’m more of a 17th century man of letters with my spelyng.

Wouldn't have mentioned it if this were not one of those education-themed threads.

I always respect a Renaissance man in this day and age!

[The Comedian]

Unionize the Chinese teachers. That will eff 'em up real good, dumb them right down to Chicago levels of illiteracy.

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[mulan]

This kind of international contests is one of Chinese government's national projects - one of the communist government's showcases. Of course these children would do very well. Remember those Chinese Olympic gymnasts? They are all part of national projects which Chinese government depends on to spread its nationalism.