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I earned a Bachelor of Science in Speech from Northwestern and a Master s in Liberal Arts from St. John s College, the Great Books School. In my spare time, I lead and attend St. John s stylegreat books discussion groups around the world.
For over three decades I ve been actively involved in American education, including teaching and/or coaching gigs at Columbia University, LaGuardia College, Stuyvesant High School, Bronx High School of Science, and the Eagle Academy for Young Men. I was also the Assistant Director of Development at the New Mexico Academy for Sciences and Mathematics.
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A weakness of the PISA test, however, is that China is allowed to let certain regions stand in for the performance of the entire nation. Though their results were reported separately, only three Chinese regions Shanghai (top ranked in all three categories), Taipei (3rd in Math, 11th in reading, 21st in science), and Hong Kong (4th in math, 4th in reading, 5th in science) were included in the latest PISA results. What if the same policy applied in the US, where we could cherry pick the results of three states and exclude the other forty seven? While our overall performance would not put us tops in the world, it would dramatically increase our rankings in each tested category. Chamber of Commerce analyzed data from ACT, the College Board and the US Chamber of Cpatagonia az 85624-homes for saleommerce Foundation s annual Leaders and Laggards state by state report card in creating an overall academic assessment of each US state (not just subject specific competitiveness scores, ala PISA). According to a Free Enterprise infographic, the top US states in overall academic proficiency are, fpatagonia r4 wetsuit reviewrom 1 10: Massachusetts, New Jersey, Vermont, Connecticut, Maryland, Virginia, Minnesota, Colorado, Pennsylvania and New Hampshire.
By digging deeper into the Free Enterprise analysis, I found that if Massachusetts were allowed to report subject scores independently much the way that, say, Shanghai is allowed to do so the Bay State would rank 9th in the world in Math Proficiency, tied with Japan, and on the heels of 8th ranked Switzerland. In reading, Massachusetts would rank fourth in the world, tied with Hong Kong, and not far behind third ranked Finland.
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Finally, there are dramatic differences in educational performance by state and region in the US. Clearly, the Northeast with six of the top ten states in overall academic proficiency is doing something right on multiple levels. And clearly the traditional South with five states in the bottom 10 is doing something fundamentally wrong. Then again, maybe demographic and other non academic factors are at play here.
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Shanghai was not cherry picked to represent China. In all the published rpatagonia everlong review rabbiteports, Shanghai was labeled as Shanghai, not China.
There is a good reason to use results from Shanghai, not the whole China. OECD is not the whole world, it only includes developed countries.
No reasonable person would suggest to compare the whole China with OECD countries.
I have no problem with your suggestion. If data is available, you can do this kind of analysis on your own and I would like to see the results. However, I believe the results will still favor China, if you match economically comparable regions.
Don t take me wrong. I am not implying China has a better education system. The results mostly is an effect of our culture. Our parents push harder and students work harder. Just it. Some other Asian countries have similar culture with us and they also score well in PISA.
Very interested in the above debate. It concerns me that Australia is falling in its science and math world rankings, and students are not choosing to study science at senior level(Year 11 and 12) in significant nos. It concerns me enough to start my Master s in Educational Research. I have no doubts that the enthusiasm for achievement and competitive element in crowded schools and universities drives achievement among Asian nations. left a lot to be desired.
Yes. You are correct. Lab / science practice is a common weakness inpatagonia guide pants xxxl Asian science education. Partly because of opatagonia guide pants $10 and underur culture, and partly because of lack of funding in schools. We do have lab courses in school and our students do love science lab, but we don t spend as that much time as western countries.
However, I don t think it is a big problem, because these things can be easily picked up. With solid understanding of content knowledge, students can learn science lab quickly. They just need more practice.
