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Basic problem solving too hard for German kids
TheLocal.de ^ | 01 Apr 2014 16:10 GMT+02:00

Posted on 04/01/2014 1:00:12 PM PDT by Olog-hai

A fifth of Germany’s schoolchildren have problems with simple decision-making tasks, such as selecting the cheapest item from a page in a catalog, results from the global PISA test showed on Tuesday. […]

For Germany, the performance was not sparkling, with its children ranking behind those of Australia, Canada, Finland, England and most East Asian countries that took part. Germany only scored slightly higher than the average of the 44 countries that took part.

Almost 20 percent failed to reach the OECD’s baseline level. This meant that at best, these pupils could only solve very simple problems that required no forethought, such as selecting the cheapest item from a page of a catalog. …

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To: KosmicKitty

lol


21 posted on 04/01/2014 1:26:37 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: andyk

“Judeo-Soviet alliance after World War II”

Yeah,Stalin loved the Jews so much he killed more than Hitler.

And “Anglo-Zionist”? Really?! Maybe that poster should look up “King David Hotel” and the “Irgun” and how the Brits and Zionists played so well together in the late 1940s.


22 posted on 04/01/2014 1:27:25 PM PDT by TheThirdRuffian (RINOS like Romney, McCain, Christie are sure losers. No more!)
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To: Olog-hai

What about the percentage of the under 18’s? What percentage of that demographic is foreign born or children of foreign born?


23 posted on 04/01/2014 1:32:37 PM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: who_would_fardels_bear
I didn't research that far; however, 20% is 20% if it is the typical bell curve.

I heard recently that caucasians are now less than 50% of the US population. All the other groups combined are more than 50%.

24 posted on 04/01/2014 1:42:54 PM PDT by DallasDeb (usafa06mom)
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To: KosmicKitty
as long as they explain what a page is and why they might need a catelog

as long as they explain that a tree lost its life to produce a catelog

25 posted on 04/01/2014 1:44:54 PM PDT by dartuser
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To: DallasDeb

lol

not even close.

The US is 72.5% white currently (as of the 2010 census)

It always shocks me how badly people over estimate the minority population of the US.


26 posted on 04/01/2014 1:48:50 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied .. the economy died.)
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To: Gen.Blather

I took my grandson to Washington DC a couple of years ago when he was visiting us from Idaho. The only building he recognized was the Lincoln Memorial and that only because it was the site of MLK’s I have a Dream speech. None of it meant anything to him. The only thing that mattered was that speech. I was flabergasted!


27 posted on 04/01/2014 1:49:13 PM PDT by pgkdan
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To: andyk

Was the letter signer A. Schicklgruber?


28 posted on 04/01/2014 1:52:41 PM PDT by driftless2
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To: andyk
the Anglo-Zionist regime imposed on it by the Judeo-Soviet alliance...

Wow. Thanks for posting that. I'm trying to wrap my head around a Judeo-Soviet alliance first. When I manage it I'm going to try to figure out how they managed to impose an Anglo-Zionist regime. It's sort of like mental aerobics - lots of bouncing around but you don't actually travel anywhere.

29 posted on 04/01/2014 1:53:27 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: TexasFreeper2009

It may be a matter of breaking out what constitutes “white”. Hispanics are generally white, which is why you will see clarification on some forms (i.e., White not hispanic or White hispanic). 2010 was 3+ years ago and the hispanic community has continued to have more babies than whites.


30 posted on 04/01/2014 1:54:02 PM PDT by DallasDeb (usafa06mom)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

Maybe it was a projection that was stated improperly on the radio.


31 posted on 04/01/2014 1:56:00 PM PDT by DallasDeb (usafa06mom)
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To: Olog-hai; All
... from a page in a catalog, ...

Are the catalogs that they are talking about the old-fashioned paper catalogs? If so, given that the kids use smart phones these days, they may have been confused if this was also their first exposure to such catalogs.

32 posted on 04/01/2014 1:58:39 PM PDT by Amendment10
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To: TexasFreeper2009

In 2012, 49.9 percent of the under-age-5 group were minorities. That probably has gone over 50 by now.


33 posted on 04/01/2014 2:03:00 PM PDT by DallasDeb (usafa06mom)
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To: DallasDeb

Exactly, most Hispanics are white, because “Hispanic” is not a race, it’s more of a cultural identifier.

The percentage of blacks in the US has hardly changed over the last 120 years.

The percentage of Asians however is shooting through the roof, and for some unknown reason no one is talking about it. Asians are now up to 5% of the population from nearly zero not that long ago.


34 posted on 04/01/2014 2:03:16 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied .. the economy died.)
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To: DallasDeb

you have to be carefull when you hear information about school age children, because they only count those enrolled in public schools.


36 posted on 04/01/2014 2:12:05 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied .. the economy died.)
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To: Gen.Blather

I had a “conversation” with a 15 year old high school student (boy) who went into a full rant in how evil Columbus was and the Founding Fathers-—what racists and slave owners all the early Americans were. It was ALL emotion-based. No Reason, no ability to talk about ideology of John Locke or Adam Smith or compare the slavery of native Americans, or other cultures to the colonies. All extreme extortion with no context.

It is really sick what the public schools are doing to the minds of our children. They are removing the ability to use Reason by conditioning and brainwashing. They fill their heads up with Lies and misinformation. It is really evil.


37 posted on 04/01/2014 2:16:56 PM PDT by savagesusie (Right Reason According to Nature = Just Law)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

It is actually quite easy to determine the racial breakdown of the US

knowing just a few key pieces of information.

72% self identify as white
13% self identify as black (this hasn’t changed much is 120 years)
5% self identify as Asian

add those three numbers up and you get 90% accounted for

that means everyone else, Mexicans, native americans, and mixed raced people of any combination make up the remaining 10%.

which means none-white or mixed race people are currently 28% of the US population.


38 posted on 04/01/2014 2:17:47 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied .. the economy died.)
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To: savagesusie

Otto Von Bismarck (inventor of Kindergarten) Give me a child for his first seven years and I will make of him the perfect tool for the state.


39 posted on 04/01/2014 2:29:27 PM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: andyk
Hey, I've got the Anglo (one side of my family) and the Soviet (okay, pre-Soviet - on the other side) parts. I just need a Judeo/Zionist partner and we're in business...

Heck, according to family lore, I may even have the Judeo/Zionist lineage there, as well. I'm a conspiracy all to myself...

40 posted on 04/01/2014 2:36:40 PM PDT by IYAS9YAS (Has anyone seen my tagline? It was here yesterday. I seem to have misplaced it.)
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