I've been hearing all my life how bad the United States high school systems can't hold a candle to European high school system. How do they know? It must be some sort of standardized test. Now when I was a young lad the only tests that were the Iowa test and the Sat's. As far as I know they were not given to students over seas. Maybe that has changed or there is another mysterious source of measurement. The other mysterious measurement is the comparison against the whole population of what would be in high school of the rest of the planet or just those in the equivalent of high school. If it's not every one then the comparison is garbage. That's right our comparisons are total garbage. It's like comparing NYC special high schools that are competitive and one has to take a test against all the other schools in the city and finding that they don't match up.
The reason I'm ranting about this is because I find comparing of our school system against school system that sends students to trade schools ludicrous unless of cause the comparison includes those students.
We want to have more of our children going to college to study math, science and engineering.
This is fine if our universities can't fill the seats now with students who desire to take these disciplines and those who get their degrees in those disciples have no problem getting jobs in them.
This is no laughing matter.
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