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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SO America is all special ed?
Our culture is so messed up we accept this crap
In the past six decades, the self-appointed elite edd’s in education have led our k-12 education from 1st to our current low. Now they have the ANSWER to get us back (Common Core) as they make millions on new textbooks. Walter Williams wrote an editorial a while back recommending we eliminate education schools. Note that edd’s are not allowed to set any curriclula in our colleges; they know better.
If you only considered US whites, they’d rank at exactly the international average in math.
No surprise. Golks who can’t do math, or read cursive, are outgrowing those who can.
First of all, it’s the Federal Department of Education and has never been none to be truly honest.
Secondly, unless we are willing to get rid of the Ilegal Aliens in this country, our education is never going to improve.
I know this is the goal of the left, for our education to be as horrible as possible, because that creates a populace that is easy to manipulate and control, but this is just one more reason to be against Amnesty if we want our country to survive.
And they wonder how we write $17 trillion more in checks than we take in in revenue.
Fedzilla only cares about creating obedient tax-paying drones.
Ding Ding Ding.....We have a winner.
21st out of 23? That’s, like, the bottom 15%!!! ;’) Thanks Olog-hai.
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