Collapse in U.S. Educational Standards–What It Means
From senior energy analyst and social observer Glenn Doty:“The (Program for International Student Assessment) PISA results showed that 20 percent of American 15-year-olds don’t read as well as they should by age 10. Also, the results showed American performance in reading and math has been flat since 2000. That suggests that federal initiatives like No Child Left Behind and Common Core — which have cost billions of federal and private dollars — haven’t improved education quality in the U.S.”
This does not bode well for America’s position in the world over the next 20 years.
“One of the most surprising findings was that only 14 percent of American students were able to reliably distinguish fact from opinion in reading tests.”
This is not surprising at all. This is the foundation of why the Republican party has remained capable of sabotaging American interests as they have slid further and further afield from anything approaching “fact,” “logic,” “decency,” and “civic responsibility.”
I have very little to add to this. It certainly does not “bode well” for America’s competitiveness in the years to come, as I’ve been saying ever since this alarming trend became clear a few decades ago.
And it is the tool by which the Republican party has any real following at all.
My only hope is that a huge contingent of young people become politically active as they see the environment slowly collapse around them, and that this involvement makes them more capable of distinguishing fact from utter bull****.
