Tuesday, December 03, 2013

US EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM MEDIOCRE

The 2012 OECD student assessment results. Considering all of the money the US spends on education, public education is failing miserably.  In some cases Third World countries are doing as well as the United States is.  Slovakia spends almost 3 times less than the United States on each student and does as well on the assessments.

From The Atlantic.  Nevertheless, this year’s report—and the United States’ poor math results—may be worth paying attention to for at least one reason. A2011 study found that PISA scores are an economic indicator: rising scores are a good sign that a country’s economy will grow as well.


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