Posted on 09/23/2012 12:43:28 AM PDT by Kaslin
I believe if you broke the US statistics up...into states...we’d have twenty states very high up in the competition level with various countries. This attitude of continuing to act like it’s a national problem is a joke. Let’s see the state numbers.
It is a matter of basic grade 5 math that two exponents (debt to GDP) that diverge cannot work.
Has the US ever been a leader in high school math?
you can not go by states against other countries, unless the other countries go by regions in their countries
The American Left needs stupid voters. And the Teacher Unions provide them.
I bet half them countries got bad grammar and the other 80% are so bad at geology they couldn't find Finland on a map of South America.
Not really true. Some of those countries might be more comparable to states based on their size. And some may have complete national control of their schools, vs. our more state-by-state model here.
There are several different kind of rankings of graduation rates at this page about halfway down. I’ll post the high school graduation rates. They appear to be all over the map by liberal/conservative standards. Both California and Texas are almost dead last. None of this is measuring what the kids actually knew when they graduated though.
http://voices.yahoo.com/state-education-rankings-graduation-rates-high-6357074.html
State Education Rankings: High School Graduate or Higher
1. Minnesota (91.2%)
2. Wyoming (90.9%)
3. (tie) Alaska (90.6%); Montana (90.6%)
5. New Hampshire (90.4%)
6. Utah (90.3%)
7. Vermont (90.3%)
8. Iowa (89.7%)
10. Hawaii (89.5%)
11. Washington (89.4%)
12. Maine (89.3%)
13. (tie) Kansas (89.0%); South Dakota (89.0%)
15. (tie) North Dakota (88.9%); Wisconsin (88.9%)
17. Colorado (88.6%)
18. Massachusetts (88.3%)
19. Connecticut (88.2%)
20. Oregon (88.0%)
21. Idaho (87.8%)
22. (tie) Maryland (87.6%); Michigan (87.6%)
24. (te) New Jersey (86.9%); Ohio (86.9%); Pennsylvania (86.9%)
27. Delaware (86.7%)
28. Virginia (85.8%)
29. (tie) Illinois (85.7%); Missouri (85.7%); Indiana(85.7%)
32. Oklahoma (85.0%)
33. Florida (84.9%)
34. New York (84.2%)
35. Nevada (83.8%)
36. Arizona (83.6%)
37. Georgia (83.1%)
38. Rhode Island (83.0%)
39. North Carolina (82.9%)
40. Tennessee (82.4%)
41. South Carolina (82.3%)
42. New Mexico (82.0%)
43. West Virginia (81.4%)
44. Arkansas (81.3%)
45. Alabama (80.9%)
46. Kentucky (80.4%)
47. Louisiana (80.3%)
48. California (80.2%)
49. Texas (79.1%)
50. Mississippi (78.7%)
Better yet, extract the concentrated Democrat parasite nests ("cities") and see what the numbers look like.
” I bet half them countries got bad grammar and the other 80% are so bad at geology they couldn’t find Finland on a map of South America. “
Grammar ? THEM countries ???
Pardon moi ...Just woke up ...Ddidn’t get it first time around ...Got it now .
My gosh, this puts us in thirtyith place or is it
twentyninth, well somewhere near there....
Putting it to use in the real world was a problem for them. They couldn't figure out solutions to problems but could do the math once they were told what to do and how to do it. He called them “automatons”. I thought he might have been exaggerating.
Until I saw a 30-something year-old, mid-level engineer go around to the front of his overheating Toyota. The steam of course caught my attention as I was working on something else. Him spending a long time figuring out how to pop the hood kept me watching to see what would unfold.
Luckily one of the first words I learned was “Bahaya” - means “Danger”. I shouted that at him as he went, with his bare hands, to unscrew the radiator cap where the steam was billowing out!
Soon enough, everyone is going to be stupid.
Now this is just a matter of perspective. We can’t have students proficient in math (or any critical thinking) in the new America based upon feelings, hope and change, and an economy based on handing out “free things.”
If you break these numbers down by demographics, you find something very interesting.
Students of Swedish descent in America outperform Swedes in Sweden.
Students of African descent in America drastically outperform Africans in Africa.
Students of Chinese and Japanese descent in America outperform their counterparts in Asia.
Students of Mexican descent in America outperform their amigos in Mexico.
Notice a pattern?
Much of our performance is related to our large admixture of groups that don’t perform well anywhere on earth.
You said it
bttp
The world of Hope & Change & Redistribution ain’t got no numbers!
Unfortunately, the issue is better correlated with racial demographics. You don’t see nations or states with significant black or Hispanic populations at the top of the rankings.
Going by like-demographic comparisons—American Asian kids to other Asian kids, etc.—there’s not a big difference worldwide.
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