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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Enter Fareed Zakaria.  He grew up in another country and he appreciates how we educate our citizens here.  Despite our low test scores, we do well in the "real world".  Here are a couple of his paragraphs:

[quote]In truth, though, the United States has never done well on international tests, and they are not good predictors of our national success. Since 1964, when the first such exam was administered to 13-year-olds in 12 countries, America has lagged behind its peers, rarely rising above the middle of the pack and doing particularly poorly in science and math. And yet over these past five decades, that same laggard country has dominated the world of science, technology, research and innovation.[/quote]

[quote]Consider the same pattern in two other highly innovative countries, Sweden and[b] Israel. Israel ranks first in the world in venture-capital investments as a percentage of GDP; the United States ranks second, and Sweden is sixth, ahead of Great Britain and Germany. [/b]These nations do well by most measures of innovation, such as research and development spending and the number of high-tech companies as a percent of all public companies. Yet all three countries fare surprisingly poorly in the OECD rankings. Sweden and Israel performed even worse than the United States on the 2012 assessment, landing overall at 28th and 29th, respectively, among the 34 most-developed economies.
[b]But other than bad test-takers, their economies have a few important traits in common: They are flexibl[/b]e. Their work cultures are non-hierarchical and merit-based. All operate like "young" countries, with energy and dynamism. All three are open societies, happy to let in the world's ideas, goods and services. [b]And people in all three nations are confident [/b]— a characteristic that can be measured. Despite ranking 27th and 30th in math, respectively, American and Israeli students came out at the top in their belief in their math abilities, if one tallies up their responses to survey questions about their skills. Sweden came in seventh, even though its math ranking was 28th.[/quote]

Common Core is destroying this.  It is making us less flexible and making students less confident.  It's a disaster.  STOP THE MADNESS NOW.  I just love it that the parents can see this (at least the ones who are critical thinkers) and are opting their kids out.  It seems that we have a lot of critical thinkers who care about education in the New York City area.  Not too surprised there.  They will lead us out of this.  Thankfully.  [/quote]

One problem I see with Zacharia's argument is that a lot of the experts that make the U.S. a great place for innovation, research, science, and technology are from foreign countries--either coming for university, grad school, post-docs, or work.  So it's a mistake to fully credit our education system for these succeses.[/quote]

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