Posted on 12/03/2019 7:34:14 AM PST by yesthatjallen
An international exam measuring student achievement around the world found that U.S. students have largely not improved since 2000, despite efforts to boost reading and math skills among American children.
The Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) test results released Tuesday show that U.S. students were slightly above average in terms of reading ability but below the math skills level of peer nations.
The test, which was administered to U.S. 15-year-olds, also revealed a widening achievement gap between the highest- and lowest-performing students, with as many as a fifth of 15-year-olds in the U.S. not reading at a 10-year-old's level.
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One Harvard education professor told The New York Times that the exam's results showed that educators in the U.S. were not implementing Common Core standards, which were meant to boost U.S. students' competitiveness around the world, efficiently.
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Fake news. A few years back, I looked at the standardized test results, broken out by the race of the U.S students. Guess what? White American students and Asian American students were right at the top of the rankings.
They're still trying to makes heads or tails out of 0bama's Common Core.
as many as a fifth of 15-year-olds in the U.S. not reading at a 10-year-old’s level.
Here in California it is 2/3rds of High School Graduates that can NOT read, write or count above the 3rd grade level.
Were Number One!!
Math is racist, anyway.
“... test results released Tuesday show that U.S. students were slightly above average in terms of reading ability ...”
That’s actually pretty good news, considering the number of illegals who can’t even speak English pull the average way down.
Way back when the governor of Arkansas was running for president, one of his opponents quipped, “Arkansas? They’re 49th in everything! The state motto is ‘Thank God for Mississippi!’”
So they are using the same excuse for the utterly predictable failure of the baffling common core that they use for the abysmal failures of communism: it wasn't implemented right but if we just do it more it will finally work.
“US students stagnant in math and reading scores over last decade: exam”
This granpa will be happy if his two grankids continue at / with their scores of 99 math 94 reading for the boy and 94 math 88 reading for his younger lil sister ...
Great percentiles i think....
“White American students and Asian American students were right at the top of the rankings.”
Interesting observation — the changing mix of students’ cultures needs to be given up front, not in the small pring.
Anyway, lack of growth in scores isn’t the important thing. To paraphrase, “math and reading scores don’t grow to the sky”. Also, the brain doesn’t grow to the sky.
The important thing is that they’re adequately prepared for the next steps in their education or employment, and how they stack up with students in other countries.
This should come as no surprise to anyone on this forum: “Modern American” public school educators have been teaching to the “lowest common denominator” for years!
Why would we expect great outcomes when teaching to the lowest common denominator?
Wwwweeeeeellllll, ssssoooo.
We may suck at math and reading and science, but at least our students know all the fake, made up new genders...bigot.
You see, the problem with not teaching kids history and the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights, is when the government starts taking your rights away, you won’t know they are taking your rights away. Just keep the children dumb and un-educated, it makes them easier to control.
You don't think it could be, maybe, just maybe, be the school system?
Baltimore’s scores have long been stagnant at 0% proficiency.
People are finally realizing what a crock CC is so now they’ve changed the name to something else. Can’t remember what is it. FOX’s Tucker had segment on it a few weeks ago.
Speaking as an engineer with multiple engineer in degree as I can tell you for a fact that math has not changed in over 100 years and will never change
Doubt me? Look up grade school testing from the 1920s through 1940s add compared to current testing
Guess who uses the 1920s to 1940s standards? You got it! China and India
If Sheldon Leonard was in today's public schools, he'd be lobotomized, as an attempt at "fairness".
This doesn’t surprise me at all.
I totally agree. My area is IT with emphasis in networking and security. I deal with binary on a daily basis which is what I learned in 8th grade. I am now seeing college grads ... IT program grads .... who have no idea how to translate a decimal real number to binary.
sigh
I spend more time teaching than doing at this point.
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