US 14th in Education according to recent study

[Topper]

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-27314075

Behind Ireland, Poland and Russia?

Oh, Yah, we're 14th!

[imanihonjin]

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-27314075

Behind Ireland, Poland and Russia?

Oh, Yah, we're 14th!

Couple that with the fact that we spend more per child than any other country and we can see that we have a real problem in America.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/25/oecd-education-report_n_3496875.html

[wally]

From the article:

Students in South Korea, with the strongest test results, will have had to memorise 60 to 100 pages of facts, says the report, raising questions about the long-term value of such rote learning.

The report also notes that highly-prized skills such as being creative and problem solving are much harder to measure and put into such rankings.

[Uncle Ted]

From the article:

Students in South Korea, with the strongest test results, will have had to memorise 60 to 100 pages of facts, says the report, raising questions about the long-term value of such rote learning.


The report also notes that highly-prized skills such as being creative and problem solving are much harder to measure and put into such rankings.

I think South Korea's success in education has to do with the fact they are kick*ss video gamers. We need to adopt that culture here in the U.S.

[Green Monstah]

I think South Korea's success in education has to do with the fact they are kick*ss video gamers. We need to adopt that culture here in the U.S.

I have a friend who teaches in South Korea, and they had two students in some regional gaming tournament. They stopped school and live streamed it to every classroom when the students were playing.

[Jeff Lebowski]

I think South Korea's success in education has to do with the fact they are kick*ss video gamers. We need to adopt that culture here in the U.S.

From what I understand, they start teaching computer programming to students in elementary school. Get them thinking in terms of algorithms from a very young age. That is a brilliant idea for a tech economy.

[Topper]

From what I understand, they start teaching computer programming to students in elementary school. Get them thinking in terms of algorithms from a very young age. That is a brilliant idea for a tech economy.

Wow. That is impressive. Do we have the resources to do something like that?

[YOhio]

I think South Korea's success in education has to do with the fact they are kick*ss video gamers. We need to adopt that culture here in the U.S.

lol. US students are getting enough Dance Dance Revolution. That's the problem.

[Uncle Ted]

From what I understand, they start teaching computer programming to students in elementary school. Get them thinking in terms of algorithms from a very young age. That is a brilliant idea for a tech economy.

We all do that as well in Texas (at least in the ISD I'm in). My second grader is now programming robots. I think next year I will get him started on writing python plugins for his Mindcraft server.

Seriously, python is a great programming language for youngsters...

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http://www.amazon.com/Python-Kids-Pl.../dp/1593274076

[Jeff Lebowski]

We all do that as well in Texas (at least in the ISD I'm in). My second grader is now programming robots. I think next year I will get him started on writing python plugins for his Mindcraft server.

Seriously, python is a great programming language for youngsters...

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http://www.amazon.com/Python-Kids-Pl.../dp/1593274076

Required for all students? I call BS on that one.

They do the robot programming club everywhere. Bunch of kids in my neighborhood on a competition team.

[smokymountainrain]

Aren't there like, 200 countries in the world? If we take the total number of countries in the world into consideration, 14th is pretty damn good!

IOW, if it were a pro sports league, the U.S. would totally be an All-Star.

[Uncle Ted]

Required for all students? I call BS on that one.

They do the robot programming club everywhere. Bunch of kids in my neighborhood on a competition team.

Programming is required. They do some kind of "scratch" like stuff online. The robots we do on our own (Legos Mindstorms).

[Topper]

Aren't there like, 200 countries in the world? If we take the total number of countries in the world into consideration, 14th is pretty damn good!

IOW, if it were a pro sports league, the U.S. would totally be an All-Star.

We have the best military, the largest economy and you're satisfied with one of the leading indicator of economic prosperity, education, in being 14th?!

[TripletDaddy]

My kids love Mindcraft.

[smokymountainrain]

We have the best military, the largest economy and you're satisfied with one of the leading indicator of economic prosperity, education, in being 14th?!

To continue with the sports comparison, MJ was the greatest scorer and greatest defender, you can't expect him to be the best rebounder too! Greedy. Sheesh.