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5. If it's all about higher scores, let's just follow the lead of our Wall Street betters...

Tue Dec 3, 2013, 02:33 PM

Dec 2013

...and cook them.

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Tests Show U.S. Teens Trail Many Countries In Academic Performance [View all] Purveyor Dec 2013 OP

Clearly, what we need is more testing. (nt) jeff47 Dec 2013 #1

We spend more than leftynyc Dec 2013 #2

When corrected for poverty, our scores are near the top kylie5432 Dec 2013 #3

No, that's wrong - US is average for OECD for disadvantaged students muriel_volestrangler Dec 2013 #11

40 years ago we were bombing the hell out of Vietnam Ezlivin Dec 2013 #4

Maybe if we stopped "fads" we could educate kids kylie5432 Dec 2013 #6

I like that: "...and cook them." FiveGoodMen Dec 2013 #9

Home "skooling" and FuksFakeNews got anything to do with it? SoapBox Dec 2013 #7

Not a bit. Igel Dec 2013 #15

this is creating huge pressures in higher education.... mike_c Dec 2013 #8

Yup. Igel Dec 2013 #16

Academics dont exist in a buble. Bradical79 Dec 2013 #10

We have no vision of what an educated person is BrotherIvan Dec 2013 #12