Posted on 10/08/2013 4:11:22 PM PDT by SES1066
WASHINGTON — It’s long been known that America’s school kids haven’t measured well compared with international peers. Now, there’s a new twist: Adults don’t either.
In math, reading and problem-solving using technology – all skills considered critical for global competitiveness and economic strength – American adults scored below the international average on a global test, according to results released Tuesday.
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How many of the Japanese being tested aren't Japanese? (well Japan won't bestow immigrant citizenship on many people anyway)?
How many illiterates in the American sample came here illiterate and are now also illiterate in English because of bilingual edumacation?
Some schools here tried to cook the books with “superior testing” results by excluding these or those students.
I wouldn't doubt that there has been a dumbing down of Americans. I wonder how many other countries are under reporting their new economic refugees who live in unassimilated neighborhoods.
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Well, duh! Most US adults are products of the US public education system.
Feminism is largely responsible for this outcome.
America has traded reproduction for immigration, and professional careers for the family.
Where did they give the test? Rat headquarters?
Half the people in the country are below average in intelligence - most act like typical ninth graders - and all can vote.....
Unfortunately, I believe it. I’ve seen it in my own family. When I visit during holidays, I’m usually told how ‘great’ my 10 year old nephew is doing in school. “He’s made the Honor Roll AGAIN!”. That’s all well and good, it if really meant something. I can ask him anything and he usually doesn’t even know enough to guess at the answer. Some honor roll, I guess everybody gets A’s in some schools, making the whole system a worthless joke. There are going to be some bitter high school grads in the future when they realize how ignorant they are. Not all, but way too many.
My wife just received a performance review from a mid-level manager in a very well known company. The review contained 4 misspelled words, and contained sentence grammar that would have been an embarrassment to my 6th grade grandson (that, only because he is homeschooled). One sentence stated she made “to (sic) many errors...at blah blah blah” (my wife hasn’t made an error in the 42 years we have been married, but that is beside the point). All of the “replace this text” lines in the review form were appended, not replaced. This review was read and signed by at least two higher level managers. I don’t know about this particular manager, but most managers at that level are college educated. I am guessing this manager might be pissed, but I doubt the least bit embarrassed by this if this were brought to her attention.
Demographic bump!
Well-put. I wish I had more in the way of useful skills. Nothing I studied in high school benefitted me at all.
Public schools did squat for me as far as an education.
Everything I learned of use I learned homeschooling my kids.
“Nothing I studied in high school benefitted me at all.”
I was at the tail end of actually getting public “education” (after K through 8 of Catholic school); I did have several knowledgeable teachers who taught useful subjects.
:...“Nothing I studied in high school benefitted me at all.”..”
Sure it did.
You learned to read. So you can stay informed.
You learned mathematics. So you can balance your checkbooks, invest, save, and have money.
You learned to speak, so that you can communicate and clearly express your thoughts and ideas and influence other people.
You learned how to interact with others of your peer group, and how to stand out when necessary, and how to blend in with the group when required.
You learned more and benefited from it more than you realize.
All those years of experience helped to make you - YOU.
And here ya are now, older, wiser, and edjamacated.
It’s a GOOD thing.
“Sure it did.”
Great points, NF.
I’ll add: Teen age sex!!! :) The MAIN reason I showed up after I got my drivers license.
GIGGIDY!!!
In my freshman year every Senior babe looked extraordinarily hot... it was an amazing year...
They were older, hotter, and made me nuts.
I missed out on that part. I was home-educated from 8th to 12th with an assigned teacher. The one assigned to me from 10th-12th just died on Monday and her funeral is tomorrow.
RIP :(
You missed out though.
Given that a lot of them (at least in my area in the era of Tammy Faye Bakker) tended to resemble clowns more than young women, I wasn’t exactly chomping at the bit to get them horizontal. The one girl I wanted moved away. :-(
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