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.
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I should have specified Latin American immigrants.
They do have a Muslim population (roughly 5% of the country). BUT, Muslims who immigrate do have a long history of educational excellence. In fact, it's one of the reasons they immigrate in the first place.
We have immigrants who come to this country - legally - and excel in school. Why? Because their parents have gone through a tremendous amount of trouble to get here, again - legally. The ones who just sneak over the border as they please, don't have that same investment.
Immigration isn't the problem. Illegal immigration is the problem, and NONE of those countries suffer the same kind of illegal immigration troubles we do.
RE: our rivals test only their best - we test every one.
That’s why I asked the question in POST #10 above. But then it would be considered racist to even ask that question.
If an MIT professor would feel nauseated and angered at Larry Summers musing about why fewer female students get into the math and sciences... what kind of reaction do you think merely ASKING the above question would elicit?
... and sing praise songs about 0bama.
Can’t speak to the rest of the country, but here in CA we have just over 6 million K-12 students and over half are poor performing students directly or indirectly derived from 1/3rd world countries. Little wonder the statistics are driven down.
I see the problem, our students weren't tested in "self-esteem". If that were the case, our averages would be tops in the world!
Give. Give. Give. It won't work.
We we stop giving 15-year old illiterate teenagers money to pop out babies we could maybe stabilize our IQ drain.
I am not sure why anyone would be surprised. We have had decades of dumbing down curricula in an attempt to make all ethnic groups score the same. The only way to accomplish that is to bring all down to crappy.
Are home schooled students tested as well or do they fall between the cracks in such rankings?
In other nations where a sizeable percentage may not even attend school, I doubt that they test those who are not schooled.
Sort of works both sides of the equation against the US.
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We already give them that much to go to a state mandated prison of incompetence and political correctness.
If we are going to subsidize education, it should be a market system.
We already know. Clearly blacks and Hispanics are not performing as well as whites and asians. There is plenty of documentation that substantiate it. Single family households, poor urban schools, poverty, etc. contribute to what is fast becoming a permanent underclass.
I vote for #14 as ‘post of the day.’
You are right. It depends on what the tests cover.
Smart is as smart does.
I don't know. It would not surprise me if some states have testing requirements for home-schoolers, but I don't think that the "No Child Left Behind" program tests home-schoolers (could be wrong). So, it's likely they aren't counted
"In other nations where a sizable percentage may not even attend school, I doubt that they test those who are not schooled."
That's certainly true in countries like Cuba, who claim farcical literacy rates of 100%. But, just going through that list, I didn't see any country that would quite so cavalier in their reporting.
However, I remember reading last year that the UK drop-out rate was at an all-time high at something just under 10%. By comparison, the US drop-out rate is right around 8%, which would indicate that we measuring some kids (probably at the lower testing margins) than the UK would, simply by virtue that their drop-out rate is a bit more.
Even if America had a uni-modal population, we would still be pretty far down in the list because doing well academically is not something that is respected in our popular culture or the culture of the average high school.
You really think a number of Asian and European countries don’t have kids outperforming ours?
Only 24?
Hmmm...Poland placed 18th...somehow, all those jokes don’t seem as funny anymore...
As long as our children know how to shake the salt onto the french fries America will continue to do just fine...
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