> On 1/27/2011 10:33 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:
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> Well, we've got a generation of K-12 kids who score miserably on
>> international tests, we're about the only country in the world where people
>> in their 20s are not surpassing the educational attainment of people in
>> their 50s, and a major chunk of college students are getting approximately
>> nothing out of their experience, yet we nonetheless think we're pretty
>> fucking great. I dunno, I see a problem with that.
>>
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> I read the summary OECD volume on the PISA tests and this doesn't really
> square with my overall impression. Glancing at it again, I see that US
> students scored at the OECD average on reading and came in slightly ahead of
> Sweden and France. US performance really wasn't so bad. It almost always
> came out about average among the OECD, i.e., among the richest countries in
> the world.
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>
I exactly. I posted links to the latest results earlier in this thread, with
precisely this observation.
Of course, I can barely keep track of where this thread is, now.