PISA TEST SCORES 2013
Posted on 12/15/2014 9:15:03 AM PST by SeekAndFind
“If we don’t change course, we are going to go the way of Britain., “
or Australia!
here come the copycats..
“... the home of fracking and Facebook...”
Facebook? Faceboook?
If that’s what we’ve got in our bag, we are so very screwed.
Fracking, on the other hand, is real science and technology, developed by folks who produce products that are usable by society.
This is a pretty stupid article.
This is what it ultimately comes down to: “We need to aggressively recruit talented engineers, scientists and tech entrepreneurs from overseas.”
Another pro-immigration screed.
Moving patent time to 5 years is ludicrous. The current 20 years starts at filing so that it is never 20 years exclusivity. It can be as low as five for something marketed. It often takes 5 years to get responses from the PO.
He selectively removes certain companies or sectors from economic considerations and then talks how bad things are without those data included.
But he does not do the same thing when talking about the US being 30th in math. Why does he not selectively removed data in that assessment! How does the US fare if black and Hispanic student data is not included?
"and crack the calculus text."
Sorry, but no. Our math curriculum puts far too much emphasis on the math of continuous functions for our modern, digital age.
We need to spend more time on discrete math and linear algebra, and not so much on calculus.
“How does the US fare if black and Hispanic student data is not included?”
Good luck ever getting your hands on that statistic.
RE: But he does not do the same thing when talking about the US being 30th in math. Why does he not selectively removed data in that assessment!
I was looking at the PISA (Program for International Student Assessment) Test scores here in the USA compared to the countries that scored very highly (i.e., Hongkong, Singapore, Taiwan and Korea ) and I notice one thing -— some of the schools in Long Island, NY ( Nassau County, population: 1.3 million ) actually are HIGHER than those countries. However, the rest of the other schools in many other districts, SUCK to say the least.
So, we do have schools that are excellent in this country. All we need to do is bring the other schools to their level.
We used to have billionaires single handedly standing up to the Soviets like Howard Hughes, now we got flabby Zuckerberg...
Wait for Common Core... stupid math busy work pausing as better than Euclidean proof making.
With the “new math” and the sort of pedagogical stupidity (particularly where math is concerned) that has infected teacher’s colleges (and is now part of the common core), it’s a miracle that any students manage to learn math anymore. Math education seems to be a steady downward trend. Whether these poor techniques for teaching math (and of course, your average elementary school teacher very likely barely scraped through math themselves) are just part of an well-meaning but ill-considered idea, or part of a plan to deliberately reduce the quality of math education (amongst other areas of education) is a matter for discussion.
Little known fact.
Children of Japanese descent in America outperform Japanese children in Japan.
Children of Swedish descent in America outperform Swedish children in Sweden.
And so on through every other identifiable group. Only exception is Finnish children, who do slightly better that American children of Finnish descent.
The difference is simply our mix of ethnic groups compared to those of the other countries.
Along this line, white, black and Hispanic students in Texas all outperform their ethnic counterparts in Wisconsin, but based on the average for each state, WI is better. The reason, of course, being the much smaller number of minority students in WI.
The great Iowahawk wrote one of the greatest smackdowns of all time on this issue. On Paul Krugman. A real delight.
http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2011/03/longhorns-17-badgers-1.html
Great info and post. Thanks.
Why thanks.
Followed some links to a Harvard prof’s take on Iowahawks’s numbers. He was completely in agreement, BTW.
What was interesting was one of the comments below the perfesser’s blog entry.
The poster claimed that all such statistics should be rejected before being examined because they were racist, purporting that blacks and Hispanics are incapable of learning. Other commenters promptly took him to task, rightly pointing out that what the statistics showed was that schools in WI did a less effective job of teaching minority students than those in TX.
What blew me away was the notion that we should simply ignore the facts because they were racist. How can you solve racial problems if you can’t acknowledge their existence?
Mindless H1B rant bump for later...
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