Talk of The Villages Florida - View Single Post - Do you think we should teach cursive writing in our schools?
View Single Post
 
Old 04-24-2013, 03:42 PM
manaboutown manaboutown is offline
Sage
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: NJ, NM, SC, PA, DC, MD, VA, NY, CA, ID and finally FL.
Posts: 7,829
Thanks: 14,253
Thanked 5,081 Times in 1,942 Posts
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by The Flash View Post
Don't think it is really fair to compare US scores to other countries. In the US we educate everyone (or attempt to) not just those on the path to college like in other countries.
Not so, according to this report.

Academic Failure - International Test Scores - Poor TIMSS Results
__________________
"No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth." Plato

“To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.” Thomas Paine