Obama Administration Eyes International School Grading Index
By Paul Bedard, Washington Whispers
It's going to be hard to do, but the administration and some lawmakers are interested in using an international grading index for American schools. Reason: It shows how well, or poorly, U.S. students are doing compared with others around the world, a key to President Obama's effort to boost math and science stores to levels of high-performing countries. The hurdle: state and local officials who sneer at international grading benchmarks. Still, the administration has taken a keen interest in a new American Institutes for Research study that reveals the shortfalls of U.S. education compared with other countries. How bad is it? Asian students outperform ours in math. We do our best in Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Kansas, and Vermont, where fourth graders perform at B levels on the international scale. The study by the influential nonprofit provides a pathway for schools to implement the standards.
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The damage caused by saying U.S. is "under God."
I saw and heard it when Congress got together and roared out "under God" when they repeated the Pledge to the Republic that's represented by the flag. That was AFTER the Supreme Court ruled the phrase is unconstitutional in the pledge. It proved there's a dangerously subversive bloc of RELIGIOUS VOTERS. Since FDR, religious presidents , lawmakers and judges succeeded in getting more taxes used to put religion in public schools to brainwash children early so they would be tithe-payers. Science is stressed in "godless" nations, and we can't miss seeing the difference it makes. While public school kids here are putzing around trying to understand why it was a "sin for Adam and Eve to have sex in Eden," future physicists and stem-cell experts are developing outside the U.S.A. In all big cities here, there are faith-factory buildings that produce Creationist propaganda as the merchandise they sell. They are churches, temples, mosques and synagogues. Their dumb-down products must be combed out of public schools, even though they stick like nits and leeches.
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