[lit-ideas] Re: Testing
- From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 09:36:16 -0700
On Jun 23, 2008, at 4:07 AM, Eric Yost wrote:
International testing also seems to say so. While US standards for
the older US generations are fairly respectable, the new generation
is not doing as well. Here's some evidence from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Programme_for_International_Student_Assessment
Programme for International Student Assessment
The obvious conclusion is that the Gates Foundation should stop
wasting its money. Why put students in small schools when they
really should be put into small countries? Though it may prove
expensive to bus students from underperforming parts of the U.S. to
Finland or Hong Kong, U.S. military planes are already flying back
and forth to South Korea, so why not convert empty space into a pilot
study program of busing facilities, with the easily-pronounced
acronym PSPBF?
David Ritchie,
ever helpful in
Portland, Oregon
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