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In almost all those other countries which kids go on to high school? In the US which kids go on to high school? Answer that, and then adjust for it, and the US gets to look a lot better.
Or, you can take out the 26 Special ED kids at my school who were "randomly" selected to do the PISA last year (out of 50 total). How do you think they did on the tests?
In almost all those other countries which kids go on to high school? In the US which kids go on to high school? Answer that, and then adjust for it, and the US gets to look a lot better.
Or, you can take out the 26 Special ED kids at my school who were "randomly" selected to do the PISA last year (out of 50 total). How do you think they did on the tests?
You can compare the US with Canada then. Canada beats the US in all categories.
In almost all those other countries which kids go on to high school? In the US which kids go on to high school? Answer that, and then adjust for it, and the US gets to look a lot better.
Or, you can take out the 26 Special ED kids at my school who were "randomly" selected to do the PISA last year (out of 50 total). How do you think they did on the tests?
You can't do that.
We "reformed" education.
This is how our reformed education performs when put to the international test.
The US went from #23 (2003) to #36 (2012) in less than 10 years.
I think it shows that NCLB really didn't work.
You can compare the US with Canada then. Canada beats the US in all categories.
And your point? Query: does Canada have the level of diversity as one finds in the US? Or immigration of non-English speaking students (who are also PISAed in the US)?
As a note, the US education system is nearly unique in the world in the requirement that all students receive an academic style education through to graduation.
You can compare the US with Canada then. Canada beats the US in all categories.
Tell me, do Canadian parents actually take an active role in their children's education until after little Junior fails his first test like Americans do? To me this is a good chunk of it. Along with NCLB.
And your point? Query: does Canada have the level of diversity as one finds in the US? Or immigration of non-English speaking students (who are also PISAed in the US)?
As a note, the US education system is nearly unique in the world in the requirement that all students receive an academic style education through to graduation.
But we did that to ourselves with reform.
We used to have 2 tracks..academic and vocational.
We decided that everyone gets an academic education.
We decided that every student will be college ready.
At first glance the United States appears to do poorly on international academic achievement tests. But that's because of the “diversity” of its population.
When you break it down by the racial/ethnic groups tracked by No Child Left Behind, you find that the United States does quite well. Each group performs favorably when compared to their counterparts in the rest of the world.
^^I think this graph paints a much more accurate picture:
Asian Americans and White Americans do well compared to other developed nations. Hispanic Americans and Black Americans do even better compared to Latin Americans and Africans, respectively.
Thank the United States for all its educational opportunities.
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