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Basset Hound Wrote: Jan 08, 2013 12:47 PM
That's probably why other industrialized nations such as India, Japan and South Korea are kicking our butts academically.
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Basset Hound Wrote: Jan 08, 2013 12:30 PM
That's probably why other industrialized nations such as India, Japan and South Korea are kicking our butts academically.
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magnetar Wrote: Jan 08, 2013 12:36 PM
subtract the inner city students from the calculation and the USA students score much higher. you can't include illiterate children, tought by illiterate teachers that can't even use proper grammar, in the statistics
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Many years ago, as a young man, I read a very interesting book about the rise of the Communists to power in China. In the last chapter, the author tried to explain why and how this had happened.
Among the factors he cited were the country's educators. That struck me as odd, and not very plausible, at the time. But the passing years have made that seem less and less odd, and more and more plausible. Today, I see our own educators playing a similar role in creating a mindset that undermines American society.
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