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24 Countries That Have Smarter Children Than America
Business Insider ^ | 12/07/2010 | Gus Lubin

Posted on 12/07/2010 7:43:56 AM PST by SeekAndFind

America's children rate embarrassingly low again on the latest round of scholastic tests from the OECD.

The Program for International Student Assessment, which is released every three years, tests 15-year-old students in reading, math and science.

Basically, America earned a "C." We tied the OECD average rating of 496. Teenagers in East Asia and Europe scored significantly higher.

There's one caveat to these scores. Some countries test a irregularly narrow sample of kids. Like China -- which we're not counting in our ranking because its sample of 5,100 Shanghai teenagers scored ridiculously high.

(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Education; Society
KEYWORDS: children; education; iq
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1 posted on 12/07/2010 7:43:59 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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but how well can they recite feminist doctrine? That’s the only subject that matters...


2 posted on 12/07/2010 7:45:26 AM PST by Soothesayer (“None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license...")
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No, you forgot Global Warming. How’d they score on that?


3 posted on 12/07/2010 7:47:32 AM PST by ConjunctionJunction
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To: SeekAndFind

1. Set high standards
2. Maintain discipline
3. Involve the parents

Our schools lower the standards to meet lack of attainment; refuse to maintain discipline; and the parents are not involved.


4 posted on 12/07/2010 7:47:43 AM PST by SC_Pete
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To: SeekAndFind

Smarter or better educated? There’s a difference.


5 posted on 12/07/2010 7:48:38 AM PST by mancini
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To: SeekAndFind

I’d stack up our three-year-olds with their skills in operating TV remote controls, computers, and touch screen smart phones with any nation under the sun. They are awesome!

If our teenagers ever got a decent night’s sleep, they’d score better than they do on these international tests.


6 posted on 12/07/2010 7:49:06 AM PST by kittymyrib
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To: SeekAndFind

If we're so dumb they can give us our Intarwebz back.

7 posted on 12/07/2010 7:49:31 AM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: SeekAndFind
Well, if those other countries were to import 1M(or more) children every decade (illegally) and if they had a permanently privileged class of minorities who were are told everyday that someone owes them something, then I suppose they too would be struggling to educate their kids.

Everyone one of those countries have restrictive immigration laws (and citizenship laws, for that matter). It's no coincidence their education system(s) are better.

8 posted on 12/07/2010 7:49:47 AM PST by OldDeckHand
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To: SeekAndFind

Smarter? I doubt it. Better educated? Yes. More ambitious? Absolutely.

Liberal parenting (not liberal parents, but the whole “time-out” crowd who think they can reason with a 2 year old), political indoctrination disguised as education, and the nanny state sense of entitlement have destroyed our kids.


9 posted on 12/07/2010 7:49:55 AM PST by Bryanw92 (Obama is like a rocket scientist....who's trying to do brain surgery with a hammer.)
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To: SeekAndFind
By 2023 half of the children 18 and under will be minorities as defined by the USG. Blacks have an out of wedlock birthrate of 71% and Hispanics 50%. The school dropout rates for both groups is more than 50%. This is the social pathology for failure in our society.

The rapid demographic changes in this country fueled by our immigration policies are destroying our education system along with the NEA and liberal indoctrination.

10 posted on 12/07/2010 7:51:35 AM PST by kabar
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To: SeekAndFind

America has a bi-modal population. It’s stupid to try to compare averages.


11 posted on 12/07/2010 7:52:11 AM PST by TheThirdRuffian (Nothing to see here. Move along.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Public schools have made social engineering (in a liberal mode) their priority, over developing self-sufficient, productive students.


12 posted on 12/07/2010 7:53:08 AM PST by G Larry (When you're right, avoid compromise!)
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RE: By 2023 half of the children 18 and under will be minorities as defined by the USG


Would it be racist to find out WHICH group in the USA is pulling our averages down?

Remember this — countries like Finland, Japan, South Korea and Hongkong (OK, not a country but still...) have HOMOGENEOUS populations, unlike the USA.

Australia, even with aborigines included in the mix is still OVERWHELMINGLY White ( with a lot of Asians too ).


13 posted on 12/07/2010 7:56:40 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

I think Megan McCain is killing our average.


14 posted on 12/07/2010 7:57:57 AM PST by earlJam
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RE: Well, if those other countries were to import 1M(or more) children every decade (illegally) and if they had a permanently privileged class of minorities who were are told everyday that someone owes them something, then I suppose they too would be struggling to educate their kids.


Countries like the Netherlands has a huge and growing Muslim population. They still score higher than our kids on average.


15 posted on 12/07/2010 7:58:58 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
Solution is simple:

1) Make every school an independent entity with no government interference.

2) Give every child's family a voucher for the average amount spent on public school (~$10,000 a year, private school is approximately half ~$5,000 with better results) to go to whatever school they want. Let the market work.

3) School system will be the envy of the world within 3 years.

16 posted on 12/07/2010 8:01:53 AM PST by FreedomProtector
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To: SeekAndFind; Revolting cat!

Americans screwdents can put a condom on a banana and roll a joint in under 30 seconds.


17 posted on 12/07/2010 8:01:58 AM PST by a fool in paradise (The establishment clause isn't just against my OWN government establishing state religion in America)
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To: SeekAndFind

Don’t forget, the testing standards are probably not the same between the US and these other nations; our rivals test only their best - we test every one.


18 posted on 12/07/2010 8:04:11 AM PST by Little Ray (The Gods of the Copybook Heading, with terror and slaughter return!)
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To: SeekAndFind

The headline is misleading. It’s not a matter of “smarts.” It’s about agenda-centric “education” pushed by leftist teacher unions and their progressive sponsors. America is in its educational hole because it chooses to be there. Only when representatives who will take a stronger stand on this subject will the tailspin come to an end.


19 posted on 12/07/2010 8:05:07 AM PST by ScottinVA (The West needs to act NOW to aggressively treat its metastasizing islaminoma!)
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Only when representatives

Should read, "Only when we elect representatives"

20 posted on 12/07/2010 8:06:12 AM PST by ScottinVA (The West needs to act NOW to aggressively treat its metastasizing islaminoma!)
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