On Jan 29, 2011, at 2:25 PM, Miles Jackson wrote:
> ...we know the students in affluent [US] neighborhoods who attend
> well-funded public and private schools perform as well as or better
> than comparable students in other nations on various academic
> assessments that require reading aptitude...
I doubt very very much that more than a trivial portion of students graduating from the best-funded public and private schools would be able to pass a final exam equivalent to the "Bac" that most students in ordinary French lycées routinely pass.
Shane Mage "When we read on a printed page the doctrine of Pythagoras that all things are made of numbers, it seems mystical, mystifying, even downright silly.
When we read on a computer screen the doctrine of Pythagoras that all things are made of numbers, it seems self-evidently true." (N. Weiner)