Posted on 10/18/2013 5:55:50 PM PDT by Olog-hai
The U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) on Friday released the initial results of an international survey of adult skills in literacy and mathematics, revealing that Americans rank 21st in “numeracy” and are tied for 15th in literacy among adults in 23 advanced economies.
American adults also scored below the average in both numeracy and literacy for all respondents in all 23 advanced economies.
Japan and Finland ranked first and second in both categories and Italy and Spain took the bottom two spots in both.
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The solution is obvious - the federal government needs to spend $865 billion more on education so we can secure 23rd place.
Winning the future. Dystopian, of course.
Our public schools, all of them, are dismal failures. But because they have lowered the standards so much - they all get ribbons.
I would expect Korea to have been higher
Who was tested? Just Blue States?
It’s because they are teaching Stupid Math.
Interesting split.
High math skills not as needed in tourist spots. Lot of waiter jobs. Not as many low income jobs available in tge cold.
Fluoride.
If they could only measure normalcy, the US might get rid of the top of the pyramid, all crackpots.
Funny thing, in Europe self esteem/self image is defined as a human right. Disturbing that right is punishable.
Let’s also add a few million more illegal aliens, who undoubtedly possess advanced math skills.
Perhaps that is why a lot of Americans have no issue with 17,000,000,000,000 of debt. They simply do not understand it.
The US ranks dead last in election skills.
The solution is to lower the bar so more can get over it. Everybody is a winner don’t you know. Huu
American adults’ math skills stop at adding their Obamaphone minutes and reloads to their EBT cards.
Pity there are fewer games. Used to be that people could be independent in many fields and make a decent living without having to go through the “public” mill.
It’s difficult to teach when you are supposed to mainstream SPED kids, and one of them can take up 50% of your attention in a class.
Private schools just don’t deal with those issues.
In our drive to be fair we are often unfair.
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