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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SAT tests are close to a proxy for IQ tests.
There are proven genetic difference in IQ between the races, so if the samples have different racial makeup, then the results will reflect that.
I saw one study that compared American Asians to Hong Kong students, American blacks to Jamaicans and American whites to Finns and the American kids outscored the foreign students in all three cases,
Well, I knew Sheldon was in there, somewhere...
Get rid of teachers unions. Those unions are the single greatest obstacle to reform.
I know the Sheldon you’re talking about from BBT TV series.
I never watched enough of it to know his last name. I assume it was said somewhere along in the series. It was on long enough.
How’d they do on grievance-studies?
Were Number One!!
At least you are leading the way in getting rid of apostrophes!
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