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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Zoltan! who wrote (23012)7/7/1998 8:44:00 PM
From: Grainne  Read Replies (3) of 108807
 
Duncan, you seem to be comparing apples and oranges again when you discuss studies of education in America as opposed to that in other developed countries. In most countries, for example, children must provide their own school books, so their per capita student expenses will be lower. Several of the European countries have mandatory preschool starting at age three, so the children are better prepared. America's population is far less homogenous than any of the other countries. For example, in California one quarter of the children do not speak English. Our divorce rate is higher, and the hours per day spent watching television are, as well. All of these facts create advantages for children in other societies, and disadvantages for children here.

It would be far more productive to analyze what is actually working in American education, rather than diving in the international fruit bowl, don't you think?
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