Pastor Removed from Board Meeting after Reading Vulgar Book Available to Children at Texas Public School

[Valletta]

The schools mostly work for most kids “well enough”.

U.S. ranks near the bottom​

According to PISA 2018, the United States scored below the OECD average for math proficiency. On a scale of 0–1,000, the average score in math proficiency among education systems ranged from 592 in China to 326 in the Dominican Republic. The US scored 478, while the OECD average was 489. This below-average score for the US put it below many Asian countries and autonomous areas, like Hong Kong, Japan, and Korea. It also puts the US significantly behind other western nations, like nearly all of Europe, Estonia, the UK, and Canada. Unfortunately, this isn’t new territory for American 15-year-olds, because America has been bouncing along the below-average scores for 20 years, since the PISA test began. In fact, while US math scores have not been declining, there’s also been no detectable change in since 2003.
Despite these low math scores, Americans seem to be in denial. In several studies of attitudes towards math readiness on the global stage, most Americans don’t see any problems, and many actually believe American students have comparable math skills to their foreign peers. According to a 2008 survey by the Associated Press, nearly 50 percent of Americans erroneously believed that American students were doing well in math, even thought most of them admitted that education helped improve economic growth. Americans who believe their schools are excellent also tend to feel that other schools in their area don’t measure up.

US Ranking in Math - Let's Go Learn

US Ranking in Math: how global math scores on the international PISA test demonstrate U.S. math readiness and opportunity.

www.letsgolearn.com

 

[Pommer]

U.S. ranks near the bottom​

According to PISA 2018, the United States scored below the OECD average for math proficiency. On a scale of 0–1,000, the average score in math proficiency among education systems ranged from 592 in China to 326 in the Dominican Republic. The US scored 478, while the OECD average was 489. This below-average score for the US put it below many Asian countries and autonomous areas, like Hong Kong, Japan, and Korea. It also puts the US significantly behind other western nations, like nearly all of Europe, Estonia, the UK, and Canada. Unfortunately, this isn’t new territory for American 15-year-olds, because America has been bouncing along the below-average scores for 20 years, since the PISA test began. In fact, while US math scores have not been declining, there’s also been no detectable change in since 2003.
Despite these low math scores, Americans seem to be in denial. In several studies of attitudes towards math readiness on the global stage, most Americans don’t see any problems, and many actually believe American students have comparable math skills to their foreign peers. According to a 2008 survey by the Associated Press, nearly 50 percent of Americans erroneously believed that American students were doing well in math, even thought most of them admitted that education helped improve economic growth. Americans who believe their schools are excellent also tend to feel that other schools in their area don’t measure up.

US Ranking in Math - Let's Go Learn

US Ranking in Math: how global math scores on the international PISA test demonstrate U.S. math readiness and opportunity.

www.letsgolearn.com

Oh lookie, a website selling help for education supplies for homeschoolers is happy to report how dismal the education in the nation is.

From their “About Us” page:
Our mission is to develop solutions that are practical and easily sustained in today’s educational climate, providing students with the support necessary to ensure long-term success.

Gee whiz, they got up and running just in the nick of time, too, what with the Nations schools failing so hard!

 

[Valletta]

Oh lookie, a website selling help for education supplies for homeschoolers is happy to report how dismal the education in the nation is.

From their “About Us” page:
Our mission is to develop solutions that are practical and easily sustained in today’s educational climate, providing students with the support necessary to ensure long-term success.

Gee whiz, they got up and running just in the nick of time, too, what with the Nations schools failing so hard!

Please do not automatically disregard information that does not come from sites that are left or lean to the left. PISA is quite well accepted in the world, the standards for science, math, and reading are used in 79 different countries and many countries have made changes due to test results. There is great participation by European and countries in the Americas. I believe Morocco is the only African nation to participate.

 

[Pommer]

Please do not automatically disregard information that does not come from sites that are left or lean to the left. PISA is quite well accepted in the world, the standards for science, math, and reading are used in 79 different countries and many countries have made changes due to test results. There is great participation by European and countries in the Americas. I believe Morocco is the only African nation to participate.

Hey, I don’t mind if they make a buck while trashing our schooling systems, more power to them, but I prefer my statistics to come from people who don’t have an ax to grind.

 

[rambot]

U.S. ranks near the bottom​

According to PISA 2018, the United States scored below the OECD average for math proficiency. On a scale of 0–1,000, the average score in math proficiency among education systems ranged from 592 in China to 326 in the Dominican Republic. The US scored 478, while the OECD average was 489. This below-average score for the US put it below many Asian countries and autonomous areas, like Hong Kong, Japan, and Korea. It also puts the US significantly behind other western nations, like nearly all of Europe, Estonia, the UK, and Canada. Unfortunately, this isn’t new territory for American 15-year-olds, because America has been bouncing along the below-average scores for 20 years, since the PISA test began. In fact, while US math scores have not been declining, there’s also been no detectable change in since 2003.
Despite these low math scores, Americans seem to be in denial. In several studies of attitudes towards math readiness on the global stage, most Americans don’t see any problems, and many actually believe American students have comparable math skills to their foreign peers. According to a 2008 survey by the Associated Press, nearly 50 percent of Americans erroneously believed that American students were doing well in math, even thought most of them admitted that education helped improve economic growth. Americans who believe their schools are excellent also tend to feel that other schools in their area don’t measure up.

US Ranking in Math - Let's Go Learn

US Ranking in Math: how global math scores on the international PISA test demonstrate U.S. math readiness and opportunity.

www.letsgolearn.com

If only American parents cared more and held their kids accountable.
Many do...but many don't. School and education are slowly being seen to be less and less important

 

[DaisyDay]

"Although it contains disturbing descriptions of rape, assault, and incest resulting in the birth of two children, enough to unsettle any adult, the book was placed in the Legacy High School Midland, Texas high school library."

Pastor Removed from Board Meeting after Reading Vulgar Book Available to Children at Texas Public School - TPUSA LIVE

Pastor John Amanchukwu was removed from a school board meeting in Midland, Texas after demanding the removal of the vulgar book, "PUSH."

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They are not going to stop trying to push this material on kids.

The book is neither trash nor pornographic. This is the source for the movie Precious. The child is abused, but the abuse is not written for laughs or titillation.