Teenage Wasteland...USA!

[kallistii]

Well, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has just released their yearly account of how well children are learning in a number of different countries. Students are rated on Math, Science, Reading and Problem Solving skills. Finland consistantly tops the list, and Canada usually does fairly well. The US, on the other hand, in the bottom half of the world. Again, this is not a measure of the grade level success of students, but of their real skills.

It is obvious that the "No Child Left Behind" initiative is not doing what it claimed it was doing...improving the knowledge & skills of the students...it seems to mearly be improving the ability of teachers to prepare their students to take the standardized tests. You can read some perspectives on it here:

The US Perspective: CNN

The Canadian Perspective: CBC

And the report itself from the OECD

ttyl

Comments

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

Err...do you realize that the link you say points to the CBC points to the same CNN report as the CNN link?

[kattale.livejournal.com]

Hey, sweetie,
Can you check your Canadian link?

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

It's all part of No Canadian Left Behind, Eh? ;)

[kallisti.livejournal.com]

O.K., so I goofed, LAUGH!!!! [grin]

The link should be fixed now...make sure and reload your browser cache so that you don't get the cached web page...

sorry!

ttyl