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Posted on 01/25/2011 11:31:00 AM PST by NormsRevenge
SAN FRANCISCO -- Just one in 100 schoolchildren across the United States excels at advanced levels of science while less than a third of elementary and high school students reach grade-level proficiency in the subject, according to the Nation's Report Card released today.
The report found that California students fared worse than the national average, with fourth graders, for example, lagging behind 43 states in science and in a dead heat for last with three others, Hawaii, Arizona and Mississippi.
Four states did not participate in the voluntary testing, administered in 2009 by the National Assessment Governing Board.
The National Assessment of Educational Progress was given to about 150,000 each of fourth- and eighth-grade students nationwide.
About 11,000 12th graders also took the test, with national results indicating that 2 percent tested at an advanced level while 21 percent were considered proficient. State results were not available for the high school students.
The results released this morning could not be compared to those from prior years because of a new testing format.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
The nation's educational system and society in general..
What a mess.
This IS Hope and Change?
Maybe if we have shorter days, shorter school years and give our teachers a huge raise; things will get better
< /sarcam>
No little chili bean left behind.. Hugh Success!!
Teddy Kennedy’s Legacy?
and what has Arne Duncan been doing lately?
And, as usual, the States that spend the most get the least.
Good enough for government work!
Teacher’s Unions are KILLING our schools.
Abolish Unions!
A+ in self esteem and A- in fellatio... Oakland has been working on that one.
No wonder when PE changes the focus from high scores to just scoring.
Meanwhile, homeschoolers average in the 85th to 89th percentile on the ACT/SAT...
And where do the elites look to restrict (”reform”) education? Shutting down homeschoolers.
Okay, now READ THIS:
Have you heard about “tiger moms” and the storm it kicked up... ?
(Wall Street journal article
“Why Chinese Moms are Superior”)
Wall Street Journal - the original article that kicked up the storm:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704111504576059713528698754.html
The Economist
http://www.economist.com/node/17959516
Time Magazine (...lets add some liberal spin)
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2043313,00.html
NOW, look at the COMMENTS where they are available.
CONSISTENTLY, it is 80% AGAINST pushing kids and ONLY 20% FAVORING the pushing of kids to learn. MOST view “Tiger Moms” as ABUSIVE.
So when you have PARENTS AGAINST HIGH STANDARDS who prefer to LOAD UP ON phony self esteem and LOW STANDARDS and LITTLE homework, the thread article is what you wind up with.
Knowledge doesn’t magically transfer into a brain. You have to work at it. BTW, you don’t have to be Asian to be a “Tiger Mom”.
>> This IS Hope and Change?
Your Hope has been redistributed. Here’s your Change.
How convienient and not just co-incidental, that the "Nation's Report Card" was released just hours before The Messiah will talk-up "Education", to funnel more dollars to the Teachers' Union members, in the name of "becoming more competitive with brighter students".
The problem we have is that the money pumped into non-functional learning institutions filled with Progressive teachers is NOT education; it's INDOCTRINATION.
We can't have Standards, because too many Union members would not measure up, and we can't have students that would be "offended and psychologically damaged" if we issued Failing grades they earned, so we let them pass without learning, and we continue to pay incompetent teachers salaries and benefits while they do nothing productive in their jobs.
Privatizing schools, using local funding only, is the only way to get the education in IMPORTANT core subjects, vs. "sensitivity training", and "cultural diversity training", etc., etc.
Kwick, thro mo’ munee at it
California's lagging test scores reflect a lower level of proficiency based on the national tests, but also a significant difference in the population of students tested compared to those in other states.
In California, 51 percent of the students who took the national assessment test were Hispanic, compared to 22 percent nationally. The state also has a greater percentage of poor students than any other state.
Hispanic students nationally score lower than all other ethnicities, save black students.
Yet scores for white, black or Hispanic students in California fell far short of the national average for each of those demographics as well.
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Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/01/24/BAH11HDK7G.DTL#ixzz1C4rzeL3t
Who is surprised?
When you don't REQUIRE profeciencny in ENGLISH, you might as well accept these results. Also the CULTURE at HOME needs to change. If PARENTS don't care to have bright kids, you can't expect the PUBLIC schools to perform magic on your kids. MOST of those teachers care less than the most negligent parent. In PUBLIC schools and many private schools they teach propaganda; not REAL SCIENCE. LOL! They're too busy pushingthe GAY AGENDA and ATHEISM and HATRED of the U.S. as well as COMMUNISM.
They didn’t test the home schoolers.
Of course NOT!
Most DILIGENT homeschoolers though DO test their kids with an SAT to double check progress.
It is the CONTENT of what they are “teaching” them too.
They are “teaching”them USELFES propaganda and busily doing social re-engineering them to be queer, dumb, relative and to be sissies.
This is probably THE question to ask, if I may say so myself.
What are the consequences in our country for failing to make the most of your educational opportunities?
Why... sitting on your ass in public housing with all your food, housing, transportation, bling, TV, cell phones, videogames, entertainment, eating out - everything,
paid for by someone else.
So... the incentive to excel in school?
Nada.
I'm not convinced that this is the end of scientific progress as we know it. Most jobs require no scientific knowledge whatsoever.
This is not to say that scientific illiteracy has no downside. But I see it as a more limited problem: such as when such folks get on juries and fall for the John Edwardses of the world.
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