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Coming US challenge: a less literate workforce
The Christian Science Monitor ^
| February 06, 2007
| Amanda Paulson
Posted on 02/20/2007 5:24:05 PM PST by A. Pole
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To: unkus
You can say that again.
:-)
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posted on
02/20/2007 6:05:41 PM PST
by
pax_et_bonum
(I will always love you, Flyer.)
To: A. Pole
POI: I live withing walking distance of ETS's headquarters. They have a HUGE gym and a pool, I believe. Its good to be a monopoly! ;-)
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posted on
02/20/2007 6:07:10 PM PST
by
Clemenza
(NO to Rudy in 2008! New York's Values are NOT America's Values!)
To: Hodar; A. Pole
My grandmother and grandfather attended a Polish-language parochial school in Newark, NJ. Oddly enough, they turned out better than their cousins who went to the local "American" public school.
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posted on
02/20/2007 6:08:53 PM PST
by
Clemenza
(NO to Rudy in 2008! New York's Values are NOT America's Values!)
To: Alberta's Child
Yep. For the same reasons that the ag and supermarket industries LOVE the federal food stamp program.
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posted on
02/20/2007 6:10:18 PM PST
by
Clemenza
(NO to Rudy in 2008! New York's Values are NOT America's Values!)
To: A. Pole
But . . . . . . but . . . . . but, the schools are doing such a fabulous job!!! They salvage the esteem of failing students by not letting them know they're failing and passing them off as future problems for society to deal with. And, the ones who can pass the courseware on their own, aren't being taught squat.
However, when the students who don't require social promotion are also failing in life, we have to remember the first rule - the schools are doing a fabulous job!!!
At least, that's what the NEA keeps telling us.
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posted on
02/20/2007 6:13:40 PM PST
by
DustyMoment
(FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
To: A. Pole
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posted on
02/20/2007 6:15:41 PM PST
by
traumer
To: A. Pole
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posted on
02/20/2007 6:18:58 PM PST
by
353FMG
(I never met a liberal I didn't dislike.)
To: Clemenza
My grandmother's parents came from what is now Slovakia--my great grandfather learned English on the job. My great grandmother had little opportunity to learn, until she devised her 'plan'. Every afternoon when the kids came home from school, Grandmother Gula sat them at the table with a snack and told them --'teach me the English you learned today'. She learned a little bit of English each day. The three older kids taught her to speak, read and write English.
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posted on
02/20/2007 6:22:31 PM PST
by
Tarheel
(If you can make it there, you can make it anywhere... Rudy--2008)
To: A. Pole
I have an equal number of employees in the US and in Latin America - all young professionals. The ones in Latin America have a notably higher literacy in US English than do those who were produced by our school system here in the US.
Being the parent of three young men who have gone through the public school system here in Florida I can tell you the reason too. It's because teachers in the US are able to get away with hitting play on "The Little Mermaid" and calling it education.
BTW, the young people here in the US become as upset as anyone when they come to realize exactly how they've been cheated during their developmental years.
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posted on
02/20/2007 6:23:18 PM PST
by
The Duke
(I have met the enemy, and he is named 'Apathy'!)
To: A. Pole
If they can't reverse the trend, then it could spell trouble for a large swath of the labor force, widen an already large skill gap, and shrink the middle class. I thought that was the plan....
susie
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posted on
02/20/2007 6:27:53 PM PST
by
brytlea
(amnesty--an act of clemency by an authority by which pardon is granted esp. to a group of individual)
To: Hodar
"If this were true, then America should have perished during the great immigration; but the opposite happened."
Don't compare the quality of immigrants entering the country during the early 20th century with what is coming in today. The people of the great immigration wanted to become Americans and assimilated quickly. Many of today's immigrants hate this country and demand privileged treatment under the guise of diversity.
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posted on
02/20/2007 6:29:18 PM PST
by
353FMG
(I never met a liberal I didn't dislike.)
To: Aliska
Generally, people who post here come across as above-average in education and intelligence, tend to spell words properly (without the spell checker), and use proper grammar, etc.But when our beebers are stuned, the consequences are hugh and series. :)
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posted on
02/20/2007 6:29:29 PM PST
by
GOP_Raider
(Hated by all NFL fans since 1990.)
To: Clemenza
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posted on
02/20/2007 6:29:38 PM PST
by
ladyjane
To: Mr. Jeeves
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posted on
02/20/2007 6:30:59 PM PST
by
bannie
To: The Duke
I have an equal number of employees in the US and in Latin America - all young professionals. The ones in Latin America have a notably higher literacy in US English than do those who were produced by our school system here in the US. Unfortunately the majority of our current wave of *immigrants* are not young professionals, and from what I saw when I was teaching public school in TX their level of education when they come in is nothing to write home about.
susie
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posted on
02/20/2007 6:33:54 PM PST
by
brytlea
(amnesty--an act of clemency by an authority by which pardon is granted esp. to a group of individual)
To: GOP_Raider
the consequences are hugh and series. :) Well, at least I haven't read much about cheese or showers lately. Hugh and series are buzzwords around here :-). Beebers and stuned, sorry you lost me there.
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posted on
02/20/2007 6:34:15 PM PST
by
Aliska
To: A. Pole
And the left sings, "more money, more teachers, more schools, more power".
To: Snickersnee
[It isn't just the "newcomers" who are dragging things down]
It's the culture of "someone else will do it". Unfortunately, many parent think that the school system will magically make kids smart. Parent let their kids watch TV in their rooms, play video games, text message, browser the Internet, and do anything but read or do homework.
It's not the fault of Mexicans, it's the do nothing parents.
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posted on
02/20/2007 6:36:22 PM PST
by
backbencher
(Nancy Pelosi sends her regards to the non-voting "real conservatives".)
To: Mr J
Among other issues, the approaching conflict between America and China will ultimately resolve which nation's language will be the primary global language of trade and commerce. Even the Chinese don't have any illusions that the rest of the world is going to learn Chinese in order to trade with them more easily.
The primary "foreign" language being learned in China now is English.
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posted on
02/20/2007 6:43:48 PM PST
by
Ramius
([sip])
To: A. Pole
Not to mention a less literate electorate.
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