Talk to any American teacher you know…
They will educate you to what is going on in America….
Actual TEACHING?
Is history…..
In America?
It’s about quantitative numbers….
It’s about iPads….
It about new fad way of doing math that some big company can make money off getting the contract for the program…
Most American teachers do NOT actually TEACH in the old sense of the word….
This piece below is about a standardised test ….
But those in education ARE worried about the sates of American education these days…
The exam was first administered in 2000 to measure the performance of 15-year-olds in the 35 industrialized countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and has been administered every three years since. It has expanded beyond the 35 member countries. In 2018, 600,000 students from 79 countries took the exam.
And for about as long, the exam has faced a chorus of skeptics who caution reading too deeply in to the results. Students are not penalized for performing poorly and never see their results, and students in the United States tend to be less motivated to perform well on it compared with teens in other countries, according to recent studies….
image…usnews.com