On a story of falling educational standards, this is probably not the graphic that you want to use.
Rehema Ellis did the story on the performance of 15 year-olds science, math, and reading tests in various countries.
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How embarrassing. Heck, I knew proper contractions by my 3th birthday.
21th? frickin morans
“On a story of falling educational standards, this is probably not the graphic that you want to use.” – JT
But it does prove the point.
American “news media” is a masquerade.
Big MEdia is a news brothel.
I have said that for the
21th21st time.This reminds me of when I call someone an idiot in a forum and in the post misspell words/drop punctuation/etc.
I watched a more indepth news story on the PISA matter on PBS NewsHour last night. Things were moving along nicely until the guest, Andreas Schleicher, talked favorably about Common Core.
Firtht?
Twenty firtht?
Blame the Charter Schools (no doubt)
Yeah, but who was 22th? Or 23th? We’re still better than both of them.
American Exceptionalism!!
At least we know they have a future in new shows… 66secNd
I had to keep rereading it to see what the complaint was. My favorite construct in psych class was “closure” where you saw what you thought you were seeing. Could have sworn it said 21st.
Perhaps the 21th slide maker at NBC has yet to reach his 21st birthday?
First in shoes.
First in booze.
And Last in the American League.
Where was that? Come on class. Chime in.
Porkchop,
In my world no…. But as much that is spent…..teaching the kids how to take test rather than subject matter…. I think it’s very poor….
You say that as if 21th is a bad place to be . . . .
Passively watching the corporate media controlled national news is not an enlightened educational experience.
And sadly, The reading skills of American adults are significantly lower than those of adults in most other developed countries
http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-american-adults-have-low-and-declining-reading-proficiency-20131008,0,3562742.story#ixzz2mVdur43J
In the first assessment of how well students write using computers, national scores released Friday show that only about one-quarter of U.S. students are proficient in writing.
Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/nation/2012/09/15/Test-says-most-students-lack-writing-skills/stories/201209150167#ixzz2mVfQjYxC
If reading and writing are difficult, then watching the news is the least taxing way to understand events.