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Let's stipulate that American students are no longer the finest in the world.
Blame teachers, unions, not enough money being spent on education, Americans don't care....
Which is the culprit?
None of the above.
1. " Compared to those hard-studying kids in China, Korea or Finland, U.S. students appear to be chronic underachievers. The average kid in the U.S. does less than one hour of homework on average at all grade levels,....
2. The Program for International Student Assessment, or PISA, gives tests to high school kids across a range of countries..
3....the US ranks behind sixteen other economies including Poland, Estonia and South Korea in terms of student literacy the ability to read, integrate and evaluate texts. U.S. student rankings on mathematics are even lower dropping under countries including Slovenia, Hungary and Taiwan. The United States also produces some of the biggest gaps in test scores between stronger and weaker students.
4. So, wheres the group in the U.S. that could try harder?
Is it the teachers, more concerned with their tenure and pension rights than actually teaching kids?
Is it miserly federal and state lawmakers, starving their educators of resources?
Or maybe it is the lackadaisical students, too addicted to questing with their avatar through World of Warcraft to think about algebra?
a. If theres a crisis in U.S. education, the fault lies with a group more accustomed to leveling blame than receiving it: parents..... Around the world, the catch-all measure used to proxy for parental commitment to education is the number of books in a childs household.
5. This measure predicts student educational outcomes better than class sizes, or expenditures per student, the length of the school day or better class monitoring..... one of the strongest relationships between parental book ownership and child learning outcomes.
6. In the U.S., kids from homes where there are more than two full bookcases score two and a half grade levels higher than kids from homes with very few books.
7. How do you help parents ensure that their kids can learn? First off, they need tools to judge if any learning is going on. The No Child Left Behind Act, signed into law a decade ago, provided for annual state-wide testing for all students...
8. ... we know what works ensure parents are close enough to education decision makers that their voices can be heard. "
The Real Reason America's Schools Stink - Businessweek
Most of these kids aren't going to use algebra so why is it so important? It seems like U.S. businesses will tap the brainpower of the foreign students either by offshoring or visas to lower the earning power of the really smart American kids anyway which should delight race to the bottom right wingers.
Too many parents view schools as daycares.
You just hit on one of the major problems with school, especially high school. It is mandatory that kids attend school. Kids that would rather not be at school know that will have to be at school anyway from start time to dismissal whether they try or not.
If school were structured such that students would get out early once assignments for the day are complete and correct more kids would have an incentive to try and learn. Also, once the quicker students are gone for the day, teachers would be able to give more attention to those that remain.
Too many parents view schools as daycares.
You just hit on one of the major problems with school, especially high school. It is mandatory that kids attend school. Kids that would rather not be at school know that will have to be at school anyway from start time to dismissal whether they try or not.
If school were structured such that students would get out early once assignments for the day are complete and correct more kids would have an incentive to try and learn. Also, once the quicker students are gone for the day, teachers would be able to give more attention to those that remain.
Individualization is he very opposite of Liberalism, the lock-step, collective view of humans as worker bees.
Perhaps you've heard of ObamaCare, and 'you didn't build that.'
The next incarnation of collectivization is Common Core....
Check that out and be very afraid.
Remember that when you vote.
Let's stipulate that American students are no longer the finest in the world.
Blame teachers, unions, not enough money being spent on education, Americans don't care....
Which is the culprit?
None of the above.
1. " Compared to those hard-studying kids in China, Korea or Finland, U.S. students appear to be chronic underachievers. The average kid in the U.S. does less than one hour of homework on average at all grade levels,....
2. The Program for International Student Assessment, or PISA, gives tests to high school kids across a range of countries..
3....the US ranks behind sixteen other economies including Poland, Estonia and South Korea in terms of student literacy –the ability to read, integrate and evaluate texts. U.S. student rankings on mathematics are even lower — dropping under countries including Slovenia, Hungary and Taiwan. The United States also produces some of the biggest gaps in test scores between stronger and weaker students.
4. So, where’s the group in the U.S. that could try harder?
Is it the teachers, more concerned with their tenure and pension rights than actually teaching kids?
Is it miserly federal and state lawmakers, starving their educators of resources?
Or maybe it is the lackadaisical students, too addicted to questing with their avatar through World of Warcraft to think about algebra?
a. If there’s a crisis in U.S. education, the fault lies with a group more accustomed to leveling blame than receiving it: parents..... Around the world, the catch-all measure used to proxy for parental commitment to education is the number of books in a child‘s household.
5. This measure predicts student educational outcomes better than class sizes, or expenditures per student, the length of the school day or better class monitoring..... one of the strongest relationships between parental book ownership and child learning outcomes.
6. In the U.S., kids from homes where there are more than two full bookcases score two and a half grade levels higher than kids from homes with very few books.
7. How do you help parents ensure that their kids can learn? First off, they need tools to judge if any learning is going on. The No Child Left Behind Act, signed into law a decade ago, provided for annual state-wide testing for all students...
8. ... we know what works –ensure parents are close enough to education decision makers that their voices can be heard. "
The Real Reason America's Schools Stink - Businessweek
Most of these kids aren't going to use algebra so why is it so important? It seems like U.S. businesses will tap the brainpower of the foreign students either by offshoring or visas to lower the earning power of the really smart American kids anyway which should delight race to the bottom right wingers.
'Cause if 'education' were restricted to only those specifics that result in employment, we'd have a nation as dumb as asphalt.....like you.
I still study every single day, and would be despondent if my kids thought the way you do.
Stick to the assembly line.
Parental teaching is the core to learning.
Without that motivation kids don't care.
The OP fails to mention that the liberal curriculum pushed by teachers unions involves undermining parental teaching an a massive scale.
When parents tell their teens that abstinence is a good thing, for example, the teachers instruct kids to sleep with as many people as they want and that their parents cannot stop them.
Unionized teachers bully kids into following liberal ideas.
They encourage the other kids to bully those who show signs of not being liberal enough.
The public school system is designed to indoctrinate.
Kids are unable to read or write but they can spout off the party line when it comes to any of the social engineering programmes of the liberal movement.
Public politicized schools should be closed down, parents should home school their kids or provide quality education free from government indoctrination.
What is wrong with American schools?
1. Many students don't see school as valuable.
2. Many parents, especially those that do not pay property taxes to support the school and are on welfare, see schools as a storage facility for their kids while they do what they do during the day.
3. Teachers are not drawn from the best and the brightest, and thus often tend to curry favor with whatever direction the wind is blowing. Many teachers are "nurturers" not teachers. Thus, so many classrooms that are behaviorally out of control.
4. Administrators and district officials tend to be drawn from those who might curry favor well, but weren't the best teachers in the classroom. In many areas, especially in the south, parochialism reigns. It isn't unusual to see people in positions with no more than 3 years of teaching experience, and in many cases, no classroom time at all, especially among those involved in special education.
5. Money from the Federal government. It now influences the decisions on anything wherever it pops its ugly head.
It drives me nuts when I hear teachers complaining about standardized tests, and how they distract from teaching the "more important stuff."
Who the fuck is writing these standardized tests? There are a gazillion members of the National 'Education' Association, and if the teachers are unhappy with the tests, the NEA should commission the creation of better tests that the teachers think are relevant. It would be a much better use of those Union Dues than sending them to Barry Fucking O'Bama!
Their failure to do so is proof that they (the teachers' unions) really don't give a shit about teaching, but simply about avoiding any blame for the sorry state of the test scores.
So there.
Perhaps people have seen so much of individuals growing wealthy without producing any value to society, that hard work seems like the path for schmucks.
Perhaps people have seen so much of individuals growing wealthy without producing any value to society, that hard work seems like the path for schmucks.
Oh, no....another "You didn't build that" robot.
It drives me nuts when I hear teachers complaining about standardized tests, and how they distract from teaching the "more important stuff."
Who the fuck is writing these standardized tests? There are a gazillion members of the National 'Education' Association, and if the teachers are unhappy with the tests, the NEA should commission the creation of better tests that the teachers think are relevant. It would be a much better use of those Union Dues than sending them to Barry Fucking O'Bama!
Their failure to do so is proof that they (the teachers' unions) really don't give a shit about teaching, but simply about avoiding any blame for the sorry state of the test scores.
So there.
"Teaching to the test" can be a good thing if the test is well designed and covers the concepts that are taught that the students need to learn. However, standardized tests can be overused.
