American
adults perform poorly when measured against adults from other leading economic
nations in math and reading skills!
by Charlie Leck
by Charlie Leck
How do American
adults (aged 16-65) do when compared with like adults from 21 other nations
that make up the Organization for
Economic Cooperation and Development (OEDC)?
Jack Buckley
said we are “weaker in numeracy and problem-solving skills than in literacy,
and average U.S. scores for all three are below the international average and
far behind the scores of top performers like Japan or Finland.” Buckley is a
commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics (part of the
Department of Education) here in America.
My curiosity was
alerted. Was the American sample made up of members of the current U.S.
Congress?
Getting serious
for a half-second, this kind of international study should worry us. The story
about it in the Washington Post is
very brief. You can read it here!
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Not to worry, thanks to the NRA, our adults have more guns than any other nation. For some stupid reason, guns are our choice for problem solving - not math.
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