Samson
Póg Mo Thóin
I agree, unless you must deal with it on a daily basis.
I do.
Do you?
I used to. You know who deals with it on a daily basis? Millions and millions of kids in many of those countries that are always held up as doing so much better than us educationally.
And the ones that don't, you forgot to mention:
Millions and millions of kids in those countries that were culled out and sent on a vocational track where their supposedly low test scores are not figured into the the world rankings...
What is a "supposedly low test score?"
In the real world, there is the wheat and the chaff, not "supposedly chaff."
But you are correct in that comparing average test scores of US public school students and those in other countries is ridiculous: Not only might other countries eliminate students from contention (normally true after grade 8), but most other countries have nationalized standard teaching methods that simply do not exist throughout the USA, or even within any State, with the exception of Hawaii, where the state runs the school system.