Posted on 04/01/2014 1:00:12 PM PDT by Olog-hai
A fifth of Germanys 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 OECDs 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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Really? Do you mean white kids of German heritage?
I wonder if Common Core will teach the correct spelling of "catalog"? Probably not.
Yes. As I hit post, skipping preview, I realized I had a spelling faux pas.
Will you please forgive me :-)
Judeo-Soviet alliance after World War II Yeah,Stalin loved the Jews so much he killed more than Hitler.Neo-Nazis usually try to say that the Stalinist pogroms against the Jews were so much smoke and mirrors and that Stalin was controlled by a secret Jewish council of elders. Crazy stuff.
It is a Third World conquest of the Western World and already in all Western countries the darkies are favored over the native whites, for schools, jobs, medical care, housing etc. etc. Our leaders turned traitor for votes, money and power.The "darkies"....what? I don't much care for that language, nor for what it seems like you're suggesting.
“Neo-Nazis usually try to say that the Stalinist pogroms against the Jews were so much smoke and mirrors and that Stalin was controlled by a secret Jewish council of elders. Crazy stuff.”
Saw the Ukrainian protestors (or at least an element of them) spreading this line and it made me deeply skeptical of them.
Hitler used the same lie.
Heh, of course, I will.
Actually, I was just being a snot. It's an Internet law that criticizing some aspect of education will inevitably result in a grammar mistake.
But beyond that, the Common Core guidelines aren't all that bad given the nonsense that fills our schools. Much of the criticism we hear is based on interpretation of the curriculum which is sometimes faulty.
I think we should stick to the major fault of Common Core which is that it's just another example of the Feds trying to control that which was once local.
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