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Originally Posted by why?
Dumb article and totally false. Terrible educational standards lead to lower test scores. I mean seriously have you seen what these people think is acceptable teaching material? Kids today that graduate college know less that people who graduated 8th grade in the 40's.
Also worth noting is the countries that did well value education first and foremost above everything else. A little pressure to get great grades goes a long way.
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This ^^^^. My mother and father's 8th grade/high school/and undergrad years were from 1941-1950. I don't think the 3 elementary schools, 1 middle/'jr high', and one high school in in the school district in my mother's hometown have ever been out of the top 1% in the state of California for however long such assessments have existed...and these 5 schools have existed in that district for the last 94 years. My mother took Latin in the 8th grade, and 4 years of Latin in high school. She applied to two universities, Stanford and UC Berkeley, and was accepted to both. I attended a high school of similar caliber (1/3 of my graduating class = part of the next Freshman class at UC Berkeley...and my class size = almost 500) that is geographically quite close to the one my mother attended. IIRC, my high school only offered 2 years of Latin
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......I was listening to a radio show recently and a high school teacher from California was one of the callers. The teacher learned that another teacher was showing a film in class. The premise of the film....that the U.S. government orchestrated the tragedies of 9/11....and that the teacher was presenting this to the students as fact. The caller reported the teacher to the administration, and the administration refused to do anything. The caller was told 'It is his class, he can teach it as he sees fit'
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