Why don’t more people see that our system of education is totally rotten? It’s not about education. It’s about jobs for leftists and financial donations to leftist politicians. Screw the kids.
We need to radically re-think education. Technology a help make it better and cheaper, if we make the right choices.
Perhaps the average child the US is taught Algebra and Geometry at a higher grade than in other countries. Statistics regarding adults might be more illuminating, e.g.
https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2014/2014008.pdf
I get the impression that measured adult literacy and numeracy in the US is only somewhat below the average of industrialized nations. 25% of the US population is foreign-born; could that be a factor?
This test is racist . Our students can tell you all about Global Warming and its invisible effects on the world. They quickly can tell you how to admiringly use the right terms to talk with a transsexual and claim them to be heroes. They’ll lovingly describe all of their brave gay friends. They’ll discuss for hours how they hate America, guns are evil, police are evil, socialism is wonderful, Etc Etc. Why? Because listening to my daughter discuss her everyday college life, I feel this is all they teach.
How about eliminating the DEA, Common Core, computers in classrooms, and return to actually teaching the Three Rs?
meanwhile, if you asked lil johnny how many tubes of KY uncle fred needs for his weekend with his boyfriend tommy, american kids would know the answer immediately.
Common Core has really messed with mathematics. To the point that parents are unable to understand it and therefore unable to help their children with homework.
Only the government indoctrination center has the answer and an explanation of how the answer is derived. Thus, the gic takes the place of parents.