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"Stupid in America...."

Tin: "Now, there is a reason American students do worse when compared to students in other developed nations: we have a far larger poverty per capita population."

Non sequitur. The point is we are spending more **per capita** on education than any country in the world, yet our public school system continues to put out a lousy product. Qualitatively, it's akin to GM and Ford during the 1970s/80s.

Snippet: "The United States spent more than $11,000 per elementary student in 2010 and more than $12,000 per high school student. When researchers factored in the cost for programs after high school education such as college or vocational training, the United States spent $15,171 on each young person in the system — more than any other nation covered in the report. ...The United States routinely trails its rival countries in performances on international exams despite being among the heaviest spenders on education."
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-education-spending-tops-global-list-study-shows/

Tin: "Compare scores of middle-class American students to other nations' and we do very well."

Wrong again. (You put out an alarming amount of misinformation.)

Snippet: "To give you an idea of how competitive American schools are and how U.S. students performed compared with their European counterparts, we gave parts of an international test to some high school students in Belgium and in New Jersey.

"Belgian kids cleaned the American kids' clocks, and called them 'stupid.'

"We didn't pick smart kids to test in Europe and dumb kids in the United States. The American students attend an above-average school in New Jersey, and New Jersey's kids have test scores that are above average for America. Lov Patel, the boy who got the highest score among the American students, told me, 'I'm shocked, because it just shows how advanced they are compared to us.'

"The Belgian students didn't perform better because they're smarter than American students. They performed better because their schools are better."







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