TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2019
The things you can't be told: The latest international test scores have been released.
They come from the 2018 PISA (Program for International Student Assessment), a major test battery which is administered every three years. In the PISA, 15-year-olds from 79 "education systems" (mostly meaning "countries") are tested in reading, math and science.
The results were reported this morning, after a manner, in both the Post and the Times. For unknown reasons, this suitably gloomy news report, complete with suitably gloomy headline, appears on the front page of the hard-copy Times, but it doesn't appear in the Times' "Today's Paper" listings at all.
Go figure!
At any rate, we're not sure we've ever seen such carefully bowdlerized reporting. Starting tomorrow, we'll spend a few days showing you what sorts of things you're allowed to be told, along with the basic facts to which you won't be exposed.
There are things these papers don't want you to know. According to major anthropologists, this is the way of our species. Our species' brains were wired for this, these top major experts have said.
We allow in a bunch of illiterate illegal immigrants, and a lot of students score badly. Who woulda thunk it?
ReplyDeleteIllegal immigrants? Hmm, I don't know 'bout that.
ReplyDeleteI think I would rather attribute it to the erosion of the middle class, a result of liberal globalization efforts, initiated back in 1970-80s, and turned overwhelming since the 90s, with NAFTA and all that followed.
No more stable well-paying manufacturing jobs; a lot of temporary, low-paying, manual service jobs instead. No middle-class jobs means no middle-class culture means no middle-class attitude to education. Something like that, perhaps.
I too support labor unions.
DeleteAll Red-blooded Americans support labor unions. The only folks who don't are the entire Republican Party and the Blue Dog Dems in the pocket of the corporations.
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