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Which tactics of those countries would be frustrated by U.S. diversity?Poland, Finland, and South Korea are homogenous populations. Their challenges and our challenges are completely different.
Which tactics of those countries would be frustrated by U.S. diversity?
Why? Apples and oranges may be different, but both respond well to fertilizer (that may not be true, not a farmer here, but you see what I mean). I don't understand why our diversity is the problem. What techniques that they are using are incompatible with a non-homogenous population, such that what works for them would not work for us?You're asking the wrong question. From the ground up, their societies are different from ours. You're comparing apples to oranges. What works in Finland or South Korea will not work in South Chicago.
It may be that we are spending it in the wrong ways, or on the wrong kids. The article notes that in some of these other countries, resources are aimed primarily at children who need it most, whereas in the US, public education is funded by property taxes which ensures that the wealthy are better educated than the poor.The US spends more on education than any other country in the world. It's not that we're not putting immense resources in to our kids.
Why? Apples and oranges may be different, but both respond well to fertilizer (that may not be true, not a farmer here, but you see what I mean). I don't understand why our diversity is the problem. What techniques that they are using are incompatible with a non-homogenous population, such that what works for them would not work for us?.
It may be that we are spending it in the wrong ways, or on the wrong kids. The article notes that in some of these other countries, resources are aimed primarily at children who need it most, whereas in the US, public education is funded by property taxes which ensures that the wealthy are better educated than the poor.
If you read between the lines, the article basically states that every right wing idea about education (ex. local control, tracking, emphasizing sports) is wrong
You're right, American education is garbage. That's why we crush every other country in the world when it comes to Nobel Prize winners, especially in the sciences.
But you know.... you liberals have it right. Screw Nobel Prizes, what we need to do is dump all our resources in to bringing up the bottom of the pack, so that they go from being really dumb to being only sort of dumb, and so that way our "average" scores go up.
With any luck, our economy can look just like Poland's in a few years. Whoopee.
Would that change what the article said? You may disagree with the article, but it is odd that often conservatives point to countries that are socialistic as models. After watching a Stossel bit on education, a foreign student laughed and asked if he was so stupid as to not know hose countries were socialist, government run education.
I think socialistic models have merit, just not in the USA. We're too big and diverse, and we can't agree on anything. For socialism to work, one of two things has to happen. You can have a leader that rules with an iron fist. Nobody wants that. The other option is that the vast majority in the country agree and don't have divergent viewpoints.
That's why socialism is a better idea, IMO, for Sweden than it still for us.
Socialism is a one size fits all solution. It can be good, but everyone better like what they're putting on.
Academia - Government - Media
The worst trilateral union of them all.
Until public employee unions are terminated and banished from reality any dollar put into public education is a wasted dollar.
The Celtic tiger's a starving kitten now, didn't you notice?
Not every state has public employee unions, yet many of the states that don't have those unions have some of the worst educational outcomes. Like my state. I actually agree with you that we should get rid of public employee unions, but that in itself isn't a magic cure for our education woes.
Not every state has public employee unions, yet many of the states that don't have those unions have some of the worst educational outcomes. Like my state. I actually agree with you that we should get rid of public employee unions, but that in itself isn't a magic cure for our education woes.
Why? Apples and oranges may be different, but both respond well to fertilizer (that may not be true, not a farmer here, but you see what I mean). I don't understand why our diversity is the problem. What techniques that they are using are incompatible with a non-homogenous population, such that what works for them would not work for us?
It may be that we are spending it in the wrong ways, or on the wrong kids. The article notes that in some of these other countries, resources are aimed primarily at children who need it most, whereas in the US, public education is funded by property taxes which ensures that the wealthy are better educated than the poor.
If you read between the lines, the article basically states that every right wing idea about education (ex. local control, tracking, emphasizing sports) is wrong
But it is their right to believe such drivel. Attacking their self imposed belief system is akin to attacking religion since for them there is precious little difference.
You're asking the wrong question. From the ground up, their societies are different from ours. You're comparing apples to oranges. What works in Finland or South Korea will not work in South Chicago.
The US spends more on education than any other country in the world. It's not that we're not putting immense resources in to our kids.
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