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State of American education: U.S. now ranks behind… Slovakia.

Jun. 11, 2012 1:22pm Meredith Jessup

Would it surprise you to know that out of the 18 member countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the United States ranks dead last for the percentage of students who completed college once they started it? Out of all the high school grads who jump into college, just 56% of college students complete their four-year degree within six years:

One factor in these disappointing statistics is America’s for-profit schools, which have garnered plenty of recent media attention. Such schools are sometimes accused of being “dropout factories” that send students out into the workforce with major debt and few skills. But there are a number of four-year public universities, funded at least in part by taxpayer dollars, that have graduation rates that are just as bad as — or worse than — their for-profit counterparts.

Despite taxpayer investment in higher education, it looks like college is a costly failure these days.

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tharpdevenport
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 2:27pm
Before we put any stock into this having any sugnificance, we need to know facts lacking from this.

What is the typical length of Major in each of these countries vs. the United States?
What kind of Majors do they offer (they may not have ones that we do, and they may have ones we do not).
What is the tuition cost vs. our own? I had to drop out because I simply ran out of money, but maybe over there (anywhere but the U.S.) it is several hundreds less per semester.
What are the standards to graduation, getting your degree? Maybe in Iran it’s Bomb Making 101, or India Cow Milking 202 and you don’t have to quite do what you do here, to get by. Maybe some countries have no forced electives and you don’t waste time on garbage.

So, they completed college more than us — did they get a job in the field of study? Did they show apptitude and applied knowledge gained, to show sticking with it mattered?

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- Cosmos102
  Posted on June 11, 2012 at 11:00pm
  We need to pay more taxes and hire more teachers. That’ll fix the problem. AAAHHHHAAAAHAAAA!
  
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- tharpdevenport
  Posted on June 12, 2012 at 3:26pm
  Yes. I bet we could spend a fraction of the costs per student than what we do now, but using conservatives values, teaching, proper methods where you don’t get an “L” for learning (yes, that actualyl happens in some U.S. schools), we could sonsistantly crank out kids that would top the lists compared to other countries, in intelligence.
  
  Harry Redi can save cowboy poetry. We’ll save critical thinking.
  
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JEANNIEMAC
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 1:54pm
“None Dare Call it Education” by John Stormer, tells how the public school education system was taken over by the communists years ago. The method of teaching reading was changed from the tried and true phonics method, to the “look-say” method. Parochial schools chose to stay with the phonics method, which is why parochial school students are good readers, while public school students can hardly read at all. It is the goal of public school education to turn out poorly educated citizens, fit only for jobs in the labor force, at the service of the elites. These students are indoctrinated into promiscuity, homosexuality, and immorality with the intention of reducing the population by means of disease and abortions. In 1991, David Rockefeller, at a Bilderberg meeting in Germany, thanked the NY Times, the Washington Post, and other media for keeping secret for over forty years, their plans for a one world government by the “intellectual elite and world bankers” as being preferable to independent national governments.
Obama has been carrying out their plans since 2009, when he was elected with their financial backing and technology expertise.

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lefty5005
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 1:41pm
and who do we blame for this….

1. Parents who are not fit to raise of have kids
2. Black thuggery and lowest common denominator, see statement #1
It crosses all races but blacks are the biggest problem in our public schools.
3. NEA
4. Political correctness, affirmative action and basically anything the progressives do

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