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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Actually, if look at the majority of PhDs awarded, not ABD, they are awarded to mostly Asians. I am not Asian, but know that the Asians do it right when it comes to education. Most Americans are ignorant and never move beyond a basic 4-year degree. Moreover, grades DO matter, even in 5th grade. prepping for an assessment test is NOT cheating. cheating can best be defined as being deceitful or dishonest in order to get an unfair advantage. Reviewing questions that look similar in nature to the CogAT is not akin to cheating. If it was, FCPS would not provide practice of these types of questions to their 2nd grade population. In fact, what is dishonest and deceitful is FCPS making the statement on the website that there are no commercially available tests. [/quote]

You tell me how test scores in the 2nd or 5th grade reflect anything other than that score.

As for the asian educational model, I could not disagree more (excluding Japan.  I am a scientific professional.  I have seen the students from Korea and China come to the US knowing how to solve problems they have seen.  Ask them to do something original, and they fail.  Not always, but often enough to make me wonder.  If the Advisor lays out the problem, Chinese and Korean  educated people can do fine.  I will say, the Chinese and Korean people do fine when in another system.  And Taiwan produces brilliant scientists -- showing that the problem is cultural in the education system rather than genetic (Chinese and Taiwan are ethnically the same).

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