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Comment on The Under-Educated States of America by murkygrey

murkygrey — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:07:17 +0000

This year, an estimated $543 billion will be spent on public education and the national average expenditure per student is projected to be $10,844, yet students in many states continue to fail in understanding that normal distribution dictates that approximately 50% of the population will always “fall” below the national average in anything.

The more interesting statistic is how many fall below a given, constant threshold (e.g. “below a basic reading level” illustrated above”).

Also missing here are comparisons to other industrialized nations, how does the US dropout rate compare?

Comment on The Under-Educated States of America by Darwin's Finance

Darwin's Finance — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 23:33:06 +0000

While I can’t disagree with the overall message, your opening line…of course many students will fall below the “average”. Whether you’re referring to median or mean (often confused) it is a mathematical certainty that many will be “below the National average” right?

Comment on America’s Report Card on Education by Sephiroth

Sephiroth — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 04:57:42 +0000

Wow. Pretty cool. Looks like Germany is pwnage.

Comment on America’s Report Card on Education by Joshua

Joshua — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 22:30:19 +0000

You forgot to mention our schools being severely below par with the rest of the world. Seriously, look at the chart of the world’s education. One tidbit you forgot to mention is countries like the Ukraine have a better education system than us, we’re not doing enough to keep our kids competitive with the world market and in the end we WILL lose by becoming a third world country.

Comment on America’s Report Card on Education by Wednesday linkfest « Scott Berkun

Wednesday linkfest « Scott Berkun — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 21:22:50 +0000

[...] Reportcard on U.S. Public Education – Nicely done. Surprised to see U.S. teacher salaries comparable to other nations. [...]

Comment on America’s Report Card on Education by Scott Williams

Scott Williams — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 03:14:49 +0000

I believe the public is more right than the statistics reported here. Unfortunately, these numbers don’t have much bearing on the quality of education. I’m very sour on the state of our public education. The system is in very bad need of serious competition.

Comment on America’s Report Card on Education by Jay Willingham - CampusByte

Jay Willingham - CampusByte — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:55:21 +0000

This really surprised me. I never thought the US would be so close to other countries in some of these stats.

Comment on America’s Report Card on Education by Khiyo

Khiyo — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 09:29:26 +0000

This is a good statistics though I’m confused in some levels like the salary (is it monthly or annually) and to the number of hours (is it per day or per week )?

Comment on America’s Report Card on Education by persiaprince

persiaprince — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 09:16:42 +0000

not as bad as people make it out to be