U.S. Kids Keep Getting Dumber; Ranked 31st Of 35 Developed Nations In Math, New Study Reveals

[rangerrebew]

U.S. Kids Keep Getting Dumber; Ranked 31st Of 35 Developed Nations In Math, New Study Reveals

Dec 15, 2016 by Zero Hedge

The U.S. Department of Education has just released it’s latest ranking of international education systems (Program for International Student Assessment – “PISA”) and performance of U.S. students just continues to deteriorate on both absolute and relative terms.

Perhaps it’s time to have a real conversation about the complete failure of “Common Core” and the idiocy of allowing teachers’ unions to hold our children hostage while hiding behind ridiculous contracts that grant tenure after 6 months and make it impossible to fire underperformers.  Just a thought for the incoming Trump administration.

The Washington Post’s Valerie Strauss summed up the problems nicely:

http://www.educationviews.org/u-s-kids-dumber-ranked-31st-35-developed-nations-math-study-reveals/

[geronl]

Another Government education "success" story. This is the purpose of public edumacashun

[mirraflake]

BS study

The other countries above us are either all white or all asian.  We have ghettos and low educated hispanics they don't have which drive down our numbers.

Another stat. 6% of the men in this country who commit 50% of the murders in this country are black. Take them away and we would have a low murder rate too compared to the rest of the world

Our schools have problems but again this is a BS study not comparing apples and oranges.

The schools in my are great, no problems.

@geronl

[Sanguine]

But, they've got fantastic self esteem.

[EC]

BS study

Agreed. The other countries above the USA have one thing in common.

No school sports.