Fifteen-year-old students from the United States rank 25th out of 30 advanced nations in math and 24th in science, according to The Program for International Student Assessment (PISA). .jpg)
“The longer kids are in school and the more money we spend on them, the further behind they get, says Walter Williams in “Nation needs major reforms in education.”
Even worse, Latino and black students are two to three years behind white students of the same age, according to McKinsey & Company, in releasing its recent report entitled “The Economic Impact of the Achievement Gap in America’s Schools”
”The teaching establishment and politicians have hoodwinked taxpayers into believing that more money is needed to improve education,” said Williams.
Yet the Washington, D.C., school budget, which spends about $15,000 per pupil, has about the lowest student achievement in the nation.
Williams believes that any long-term solution to our education problems requires the decentralization that can come from competition, since our nation has gone from 119,000 school districts in 1930 to less than 15,000 districts today.
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Dana, if you look at PISA study yourself, you will see these numbers are not exactly accurate or meaningful. First, they cannot really figure out the rank, and the US falls between 18 and 24th on Science. It is also clear that those measures are not always comparable. For example, American kids score highr than average on Earth and space systems, while Jordanian and Tunisian kids do better on Living systems. Azerbaijani kids do great on Physical systems, and not much else. Russian kids rank 38-40 in thhe PISA study, but first in the world in the PIRLS study. What does it all mean, exactly?
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