Yesterday I read a fascinating article in the New York Times about how Shanghai students topped all categories in a recent global test of science, reading, and math.
As you can see in the table below, Shanghai didn't just squeak by the world – – they utterly blew it away. Take note of the location of the United States in each column. The news isn't all bad……the U.S. trounced both Slovenia and Latvia in the reading category.
Just for fun, I went to The Google and started to type in "why are American students.…." The auto-fill feature, not surprisingly, didn't offer "……so smart" to complete the query.
Pack your bags, folks. As our spineless leader would say – "make no mistake" – the teacher unions in this country will assure ongoing mediocrity in perpetuity.
