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Confirming US Dumbification, Verbal SAT Scores Just Hit Record Low
All we can say is that the need for the Derek Zoolander Center For Kids Who Can't Read Good And Wanna Learn To Do Other Stuff Good Too has never been greater. At least the data below explains why the Chairsatan will soon monetize SAT scores and his infatuation with morer, greaterest QEternity+1...
And forward to the 1:00 mark for the big (small) unveiling...
(h/t @Not_Jim_Cramer)
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SAT now has three sections, so perhaps you mean something like 1,800 combined? In the old nomenclature, a 1,200+ SAT corresponded approximately to an IQ of around 123+ or merely about 6% of the test-taking population. Careful conflating SAT/IQ with intelligence, however.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000087239639044403240457800661285848601...
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405297020393560457706629366964283...
“How much dumber can America get? Unfortunately, as the saying goes, ‘You ain’t seen nothing yet!’” – Sam Blumenfeld (September 2011)
"Gid da brotha a shance, Maaan!"
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Since about 50 years the standards at our schools have constantly been lowered...to accomodate the academic levels of immigrants and those newly empowered. Because if 50 percent of everybody failed their classes we would have quite a quandry, wouldnt' we? But the financial system feeds on every more growth which means ever larger population. So now a high school diploma is worth just about nothing and a BA/BS barely guarantees you any job.
Junked by a teacher.
In fact, in 1994 (and how many times since) the College Board, which says "differences in testing are caused by educational and economic backgrounds of students and their parents," made changes in the tests to address "allegations of unfairness," that included permission to use calculators and the elimination of exercises to choose antonyms.
IOW, the tests have become politicized.
In my opinion, standards at school have incrementally lowered because dumb people are more easily controlled, more docile, and make better slaves.
Why don't we look at the bright side? Kids know all they need to know to play Zynga from prison and they can sext like crazy.
Luckily for us the MASS ARREST and the virtual dissolution of the government as we know it will be the death of "public education".
dupl.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RljdyXeft04
not really a joke anymore...
I had never seen that video, FUNNY... Thanks
but what you say is true!
It gets better kids.
Over here in the communistic, social paradise of bonny England our kids dont even know who their dads are.
Beware. You are only 5 years behind us pace setters. And the gap is closing comrades.
Forward to oblivion sheeple.......
Forward!
dupl.
Good times learnin.
It's been long noted that SAT scores are correlated to wealth. So is this all too surprising?
I'd like SAT scores for $100, Alex
DePaul University will no longer use SAT scores as a determinant in its admission policies.
Reading comprehension issues, no problem, just pay the 25k a year and have at it.
Out here in the Winter Home of the Great Satan, to offset education cuts (So, my fine Sacramento scrotals, where the fuck has all the separately appropriated money for education only gone to over the years? The general budget...Oh me oh my!) the state university systems (There are 2!) have substantially increased enrollment of foreign students to get the big bang additional revenue out of state tuition moolah.
And a humongoloid proportion from China are so well qualified in Engrish that there is the need for interpreters to get the kids though their Howdy Doodie Acclimatization Orientatopn Day Horseshit...
So they'll do just fucking fine in classes, eh?
What language requirement?
FORWARD!
Thay will make fine future collage det surfs. They can get themselves edumacted with a for yer degrea four $1000,00 and work thersleve al, the way up too manegar at Mcdonlads.
It's been long noted that SAT scores are correlated to wealth. So is this all too surprising?
Don't tell this to the kids. It wouldn't be good for their self-esteem.
Sounds more like it is inversly related to diversity. More diversity, lower SAT scores.
"In Maryland over the past five years, there has been an 8.5 percent increase in the number of African Americans who have taken the SATs and a 15.5 percent jump in the number of Hispanics."
"More than 1.66 million graduating seniors last year took the test, the highest number in history. Nearly half were minorities and about a quarter reported that English was not exclusively their first language."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/sat-reading-scores-hit-a-f...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RljdyXeft04
not really a joke anymore...
....
I would argue that the scores are bound to decine over time in negative correlation with the amount of student loans available.
1. Once upon a time only the 'brightest' and wealthiest went on to college
2. Unfair cried the bleeding hearts
3. Relatively cheap loans were made available and more opportunities made available for places at college
4. More people applied - by definition, every extra application will be less bright that the smal segment of the pop. that used to go to college
5. College- aged pop. is declining but a greater percentage are seeking to get accepted - therefore a greater % of college-aged pop are writing SATs; therefore, if ability in SATs is normally distributed, then scores will fall, as expected, the more of college-aged pop. who write the SATs.
6. Throw the internet and texting into the mix - where social interection is limited to lols and likes, and the result should be no surprise.
7. Get rid of student loans, and one can almost guarantee that the SAT verbal scores will rise over time.
Damn, good way to ruin a funny article with facts, logic and stuff ........
No Child Left Behind was enacted in 2001.
The Effective Date was July 1, 2002.
Notice the direct correlation and down turn of the curve starting in 2003.
Prior to 2002 notice the test scores were improving.
IMHO government involvment has ruined our childrens education, and is directly responsible for the downturn in academic achievement.
I know, unlike most teachers, that corelation is not causation; but it would nice to see how much more we pay to educate our kids and teacher's salaries have increased over the same time period!
Where is MDB with saying this is mostly due to the new format of the SAT and scores will continue their obvious uptrend from 2003 once it is digested....
Obviously billions more channeled into the public education system er teachers unions will solve this, pay up you cheap tight-fisted taxpaying bitches! Do it for the fucking chirren!
Yet more evidence that backs up our decision to homeschool our kids.
Ever heard the saying "it's in the water" well it is. By the way, The Nazi flourised thier water supply with Flouide.
Study Proves Fluoride Brain Damage
A study conducted by scientists in India demonstrates that consumption of sodium fluoride results in brain and neurological damage. It was published by K. Pratap Reddy of the University College of Sciences at Osmania University in Hyderabad, India, on January 10, 2011.
http://www.infowars.com/study-proves-fluoride-brain-damage/
O.P.E. ! ! !
@ Kralizec,
I actually like to write out my retorts. And know how to spell. You've just proved the articles point. What does O.P.E. means anyway?
Texting, the Globalists favorite way of dumbing down The American People and future generations.
Here's some free advice. Purchase and drink Distilled Water and add 1/4 teaspoon of Himalayan Pink Salt per gallon of water. Or, you can buy liquid minerals at your local Vitamin Shoppe.
www. mountainroseherbs.com
It may lighten you up and let you use your critical thinking skills you Government Agent Troll.
The Fluoride Deception exposes the truth about water fluoridation and the phosphate mining industry
http://tv.naturalnews.com/v.asp?v=42652E035A1B1BAAAE1F340B54694975
Fluoride. Dentists say that drinking it can protect your teeth against cavities. Cities and towns all across the world actually dump it into the water supply, hoping to indiscriminately medicate the population through their tap water faucets.
The official story on fluoride sounds wonderful: Drink the stuff, and you won't get cavities, we're told. It's a nice story. But there's another side to this story -- the side you're never told. And it starts with the astonishing but verifiable fact that nearly all the fluoride dripped into municipal water supplies isn't naturally occurring fluoride at all.
In fact, it's actually a combination of hexafluorosilicic acid and sodium silicofluoride.
These two chemical are considered highly toxic by the EPA. They're actually classified as hazardous waste and when packaged for transportation, they must be labeled as poison and handled by workers wearing industrial safety gear.
So what are hexafluorosilicic acid and sodium silicofluoride, and where do they come from?
Could Fluoride explain the new class of liberals who have been proven to actually be insane?
One of my friends in college was a wackjob liberal and told me how his elementary school in Massachusetts would make everyone take weekly fluoride treatments. I remember my school making us take fluoride trays and put them in our mouths. At that time we could refuse and a lot of parents got angry and the treatments were discontinued. My friend said his school kept doing it all the way to 8th grade.
It seems the cities with the highest concentrations of fluoridated water have the highest percentage of wackos.
"Purity of Essence, Mandrake!"
I dropped a bottle of Himalayan Pink Salt into a sink full of water by accident. When I did the math and figured out the salt costs 1000 dollars a pound I almost cried. OK it was ONLY 10 bucks for 4 ounces. It's a nice salt.
I don't avoid women, Chupacabra, but I do deny them my essence.
Dear Chupa,
Apparently you've never seen Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece "Dr. Strangelove", otherwise you would have known the initials to be "Our Precious Essence" as written on a tablet by General Ripper after coming to believe the Commies were poisoning our water with fluoride and hence he decided to initiate WWIII. I find it ironic that in the preceding post the accusation is made, however the Commies in question are not an external threat but an internal one.
Regards,
Kralizec
PS-Chupa-proofed for the spelling impaired.
I would argue that the scores are bound to decine over time in negative correlation with the amount of student loans available.
1. Once upon a time only the 'brightest' and wealthiest went on to college
2. Unfair cried the bleeding hearts
3. Relatively cheap loans were made available and more opportunities made available for places at college
4. More people applied - by definition, every extra application will be less bright that the smal segment of the pop. that used to go to college
5. College- aged pop. is declining but a greater percentage are seeking to get accepted - therefore a greater % of college-aged pop are writing SATs; therefore, if ability in SATs is normally distributed, then scores will fall, as expected, the more of college-aged pop. who write the SATs.
6. Throw the internet and texting into the mix - where social interection is limited to lols and likes, and the result should be no surprise.
7. Get rid of student loans, and one can almost guarantee that the SAT verbal scores will rise over time.
Don't know why you got downvoted for this comment--it is very true. Colleges and universities have been in a race to the bottom due to increasing enrollments. When I taught college, I noted that there were a large number of kids there who had no business being near a campus at all. They had no real interest in learning anything, for starters. The schools had to institute all kinds of remedial writing and math classes to bring people up to any kind of college-level competence. Pretty fucking pathetic if you ask me.
most likely got downvoted bc this is a duplicate post from above
"Get rid of student loans, and one can almost guarantee that the SAT verbal scores will rise over time."
essentially...are kids actually getting dumber or are there just more of them taking the SAT's trying to get into college? sounds likely to me.
Do you need to know how to read in order to watch football on tv?
Is that a prerequisite?
Besides, picking up a book in your typical Amerikkkan school will get you picked-on and beat-up. Picking up a ball, on the other hand - that will get you picked for Prom King/Queen and give you a free pass to be the one who performs the aforementioned beating-up.
The ongoing dumbing-down of our society wouldn't be so such a frustrating event if our society didn't like and accept it and with such glee.
495 average? What is that, an SAT score for ants??
If true, many factors contributed to the problem--SAT test has probably changed such that certain years are not a direct comparison against other years. We have had a wage of immigration, so a lot more non-English-as-a-first-language speakers taking the test now. Then, lastly, there is the general dumbing down of everyone else to Kardashian/Jersey Shore levels.
You need dumb people to shallow the bullshit the government feeds us. So why would the government care how smart you are? Intelligence is strength.
They have their plan and it is going very good for them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fj6Qamu0JY&feature=related
Part1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUWQ3yu19Bk&feature=relmfu
Part2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzU5X3RfHjg&feature=relmfu
Kids pay 15 IQ points to drink fluoridated water.
I knew Mike Judge's film Idiocracy accurately predicted the future of the world.
What is are be you talking about - I dont git its.
[finally.. the first commet I didn't have to use spell check on]
Well back in 1973 nobody gave a rat's ass about some stupid tests so it was no big deal to ask around for the answers so we could all get outside and look at the seniors' muscle cars and blast some Zep.
Er, did I say 'we'? I meant those bad kids.
Qantitative Education
Read, Reed and Reid everything you can!
I ran into a teacher I knew outside the library. He was going someplace else. At the end of the conversation, I mentioned that I had to return some books to the library. He said (and I quote exactly), "You read books? I don't."
Are YOU smarter than a fifth grader????? If not why not??? Do you blame your teacher???? Is it your parents fault??? Fluoridation???
5th Grader games are played by a single contestant, who attempts to answer ten questions (plus a final bonus question). Content is taken from elementary school textbooks, two from each grade level from first to fifth. Each correct answer increases the amount of money the player banks; a maximum cash prize of US$1,000,000 can be won. Along the way, the player can be assisted by a "classmate", one of five school-age cast members, in answering the questions. Notably, upon getting an answer incorrect or deciding to prematurely end the game, the contestant must state that they are "not smarter than a 5th grader."
Two people have won the $1,000,000 prize: Kathy Cox, superintendent of public schools for the U.S. state of Georgia; and George Smoot, winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics and professor at University of California, Berkeley.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Are_you_smarter_than_a_5th_grader
Hundreds of adults have been forced to look into the camera and admit they are not smarter than a fifth grader. It is worth noting that not one of them had the temerity to blame their teachers, school systems, parents, Fluoride or any other such obfuscatory nonsense.
There is no reasoning involved in answering those questions. It's just retention of facts. Of course a 5th grader will know their material better than someone who hasn't seen it for 20 years. If you don't use certain facts and information, it is not readily accessible.
really??? Though I do not watch the show I had occasion to observe a very confident adult female asian american thirty something college graduate who said she scored 1200(apparently a good score at one time)on her SAT get bounced from the show on her very first question.
asked...If you were born on Easter Sunday is it true or false that your birthday will occur on Easter Sunday every year?
answered...True!
This question was a third grade level question that could have been solved with a basic understanding of our calender and reasoning skills.
Is this not a simple reasoning fail based on something we ALL experience daily?
An adult female student from China didn't know that Easter Sunday doesn't occur each year on Easter Sunday is stupid. How dare she not know the innner workings of American holidays. She is dumb. BTW, without using wikipedia, was Confucious born in the Year of the Dragon or Cat? Pretty simple lol The questions on that show aren't always basic reasoning sometimes is is obscure knowledge that if you're not part of some human subgroup you wouldn't know.
I've watched that show once or twice, and I learned that we were taught some pretty obscure shit in grade school. But everybody knows that Easter falls on the Sunday after the first full moon preceded by the vernal equinox. ;-)
My then-seven year old was watching this show a few months back. The contestant was an oral surgeon. The bonus question was: "This gland produces melatonin, which helps you sleep." My wife was stumped. I said "pituitary." The oral surgeon said "pituitary." My son said "pineal." I immediately realized he was right. And it was indeed pineal. This kid's going to med school...
They're already working on dumbing down those testing standards, doing a little fraud here and little COERCION there and voila, the american slaves now have the highest scores anywhere.
The only thing that can make that chart look better is the release of the math scores.
Fuck it.. Im not dumb. Im smart
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYabrQrXt4A
Stoodant lowns will bring down costs and we can ''change'' dis. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0O7_3o3BrI&feature=related
Hmmmmm. Wonder what the average SAT verbal score for ZH posters would be if they took the test tomorrow?
This is what happens when you bring Socialism to the classroom.
New Zogby Poll: Romney Loses Ground, Down By 8 Points | Global Research, September 24, 2012
A new Zogby Poll of 860 likely voters nationwide, conducted online September 21 and 22, shows President Barack Obama opening up an 8 point lead over GOP challenger and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney. Among likely voters, Obama now leads 49% to 41%; when leaners are factored in and minor party candidates are included, Obama’s lead widens to 9 points, 49%-40%, with 2% each voting for Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson and Green Party’s Dr. Jill Stein, and 1% for Constitution Party Virgil Goode.
The poll has a margin of sampling error of +/-3.4 percentage points.
Obama has a 14 point lead among independents (46% to 32%), 33 points among moderates (60% to 27%), 36 points among 18-29 year olds (65%-29%), 11 points among 30-49 year olds (48% to 37%), and is down among 50-64 year olds by only 2 points (45%-47%) and 3 points among voters over 65 (44%-47%). The President maintains his huge leads among Hispanics (68% to 26%) and African American voters (93%-0%).
Romney’s lead is only 50% to 39% among white voters and 48% to 40% among evangelicals. Obama continues his lead among NASCAR fans (49% Obama to 42% Romney).
Pollster John Zogby:
“I won’t say that things are spinning out of control for Romney, but I can say that things are not spinning in control. He is off message, losing ground, not connecting with his own base, being severely chastised (and even dismissed) by GOP pundits who should be his friends. There are ups and downs in presidential campaigns. For Romney, this is a real down.“
http://www.globalresearch.ca/new-zogby-poll-romney-loses-ground-down-by-8-points/
It’s one thing to be taken over by an army; it’s quite another for the takeover to be voted in.
495? You didn't build that. There was a great teacher or mentor along the way who helped you acheive that
Thats sad...
Great! The fluoride is doing exactly what the demonati want it to do!
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/24/idUS127920+24-Jul-2012+PRN20120724
Tuco
Me fail english? That's unpossible.
"The average math scores of American students put them below 30 other countries."
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/07/education/07education.html?pagewanted=...
Many countires, especially China, only let the creme de la creme write these tests. It severely skews the results - all to gain international face.
More likely it's a sampling error. They sampled the wrong country.
<< Many countires, especially China, only let the creme de la creme write these tests. It severely skews the results>>
The article states the USA came in 30th. Are you implying that all 29 countries "skewed the results."
Sounds fishy to me.
Bullish!
Read or Listen to a few speeches by JFK to see how far the expected comprehension of the electorate has fallen.
Or read the Federalist Papers. Those are a collection of articles published in local newspapers to convince the farmers to adopt the US Constiution.
Newspeak is arriving right on time. That's doubleplusungood.
http://www.newspeakdictionary.com/ns-prin.html
I don't care about the average, as I never believed that the egalitarian goals of public education would ever be achieved at an affordable cost. What I care about is the numbers in the groups above 1,200 combined. It is those people that are capable of managing in a complex economy and moving us forward to the Kurzweil Singularity.
This would have been interesting 10 or 15 years ago. Like when that guy Charles Murray came out with the Bell Curve book about IQ that caused such a stir.
We are so far gone that this doesn't even matter anymore. In fact, in America, some of the most idiotic and braindead people are those who "prepped" to get the best scores and end up working in a bureaucracy in D.C. or on Wall Street.
So when it comes to falling SAT scores, I say, bring it on.
Bring it on?
Perhaps you should reconsider: my recollection is that the Bell Curve reflects tremendous differences in socioeconomic patterns and values. Here’s an AP news item that appeared a while back:
BROOKSVILLE, Fla. – A Florida city is cleaning up with a new dress code that requires city workers to wear underwear and use deodorant.
The city council in Brooksville north of Tampa approved a dress code that instructs employees to observe ‘strict personal hygiene.’
It also prohibits exposed underwear, clothing with foul-language, ‘sexually provocative’ clothes and piercings anywhere except the ears.
Repeat offenders can be fired.
The city council approved the dress code 4-1 as part of a wider effort to update existing policies and ordinances.
My daughter has been going to Japan for the month of July as Japan has 200 hours annual education, the US has what 180 hours.
Anyway, in Grade 2 they do Grade 5 US math
Grade 5 math in 2nd Grade? It's because they need to get "quadrillion" into the curriculum as soon as possible.
Total Japanese Government Debt: 1,000,000,000,000,000 yen.
"We're gonna need a bigger abacus."
Wait don’t you get 200 points just filling out the name field……
As the old song goes
We don't need no education
We don't need no thought control..
Give it some time and Foxconn USA will be the place to work for these Rap talking citizens.
The boom-box has been replaced by the i-Phone.
Many Western European students speak better English as a second language than their American counterparts.
Seriously.
I miss dat day dey give da sat my pit wen on a rampage my pit was eting all da ooder dawgs in da hood my pit 8 a shorty I gotta run to da yard and blast my pit with my G lock was turrable just turrable I kilt im I done shot my own pit I buryed him in da erf sos my guidance ho come to my crib and says don worry bout that sat test theys gonna give you a wayver and I don gotta take it then we smoke a lil weed
Lec tro lits and hoes
Low scores seem to have correlated inversely with the growth in Facebook's popularity.
Trickle Down SAT scores....
I love these new words into the english language , they are so descriptive and meaningful. I'll bet you SAT scores have not incorporated them into ther tests.
1. Dumbification
2. Pussyfication
3. Zombiefication
4. Vaporification
5. Impoverification
along with expressions like
6. "Got suicided"
7. "Buying thingamagigs"
8." Are you into sexting"
9. "Drone deathidemics"
etc.
ZH insulting readers. Drop in verbal score simply reflects internationalization of the test, more non-english natives are taking the test bringing verbal scores down. I would bet math scores are through the roof. Math is same in the US as China, Poland and India. Verbal language is not.
Are you sure you want to bet on that? The math SAT being through the roof I mean. Actually I think the only way the math SAT scores have gone through the roof is if they feel through a skylight.
I live close to a college town and routinely deal with local students - incoming freshman to grad students.
What is profoundly alarming is how uninformed even college aged "children" are. People in their early twenties can't even culturally reference things like the Hindenburg, the Beatles and what "white-collar" means, never-mind little things like multiplication.
I used to think that all that texting and internet usage made these people some super-being when it comes to useless culture fads - but they are not even getting that.
It's leaking into the mainstream - see how often you see misspelled words or wrong words used in even NYT articles. It's pathetic.
Add to this all the anti-depressants handed out like Halloween candy and we are seeing a generation fall into an Abyss.
I used to think the movie "Idiocracy" was a true farce. Now it reads like a documentary.
All your grammer & sintax are belong to us (sic/Sick)
The Cake (er, um Chart) is a Lie (isn't everything?)
It is far worse then shown.
In 1995 the SAT was re-normed adding 100 points to everyone's score just for showing up.
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~chance/course/topics/SAT.html
who will be most f'd when SHTF? the hoards of senile babyboomers in homes or the flocks of drunken illiterate iZombies in school?
my guess they end up eating eachother and equilibrium returns to the universe.
Yeah, no shit. We keep spending more per capita than amost anyone else on education, but we keep falling behind in academic ranking. If only we just issue more muni bonds to purchase an iPad for each child, have at least two field trips per semester, and maintain a 3:1 student-to-teacher ratio, then we'd be on track. . . oh wait--I forgot, many of the largest states/school districts in the U.S. are at ore near the max debt ratios for existing bond covenants--many of them with outstanding long-term pension obligation bonds.
Friends of mine in the power and water industries have lamented to me via politically correct speech that the younger people coming up through the ranks just are not all that motivated and this is causing problems in their industries.
As Russian rockets unexpected fall from the sky in increasing frequency the Russians were less politically correct and came right out and said that the younger guys are not very smart and this in imparing their ability to keep their rockets working properly. Though they did toss in that the US was stealing their smart people.
Since about 50 years the standards at our schools have constantly been lowered...to accomodate the academic levels of immigrants and those newly empowered. Because if 50 percent of everybody failed their classes we would have quite a quandry, wouldnt' we? But the financial system feeds on every more growth which means ever larger population. So now a high school diploma is worth just about nothing and a BA/BS barely guarantees you any job.
Two things....(1) with regards to teachers...pay for student performance and have teachers in Jr. high on up with a Masters degree in their subject, no more of this BA in Education crap. (2) with regards to students...looks like we should have a cut...college bound, tech school bound, military or hamburger flippers. Too many Kids just do not have an interest in being in school, rather be home twitching their thumbs on their phone or at home playing internet games. Pathetic, with my kids getting an education is all I expected from them. I was their educational backstop, they are today quite successful. Parents need to get involved and learn the word...NO. 3-5 hours of homework is a must.
The one thing that you have to watch for with these numbers is that school districts include ESL (English as a Second Language) students' scores. To me, that doesn't make any sense. How can you have an accurate gauge of SAT scores if you're including kids who don't speak English regularly? Say what you will, but to me that doesn't make sense. I'd like to see the numbers after ESL scores are removed.
And as one poster put above, some foreign countries score higher with English being the second language, but those numbers are filtered too. Only the top scores get counted to help the 'average' number overall.
But american education is achieving its intended goals. Graduates, or dropouts, have a marxist orientation, a credulous acceptance of MSM narrative, a sense of entitlement, not enough science to see through global warming hype, a deference to 'experts', an indifference to disappearning freedoms, an ignorance of the constitution, and a general strong sense of followersip to the government.
Both republicans and democrats see the existing system perpetuates their privilege. Its only an abomination to libertarians--a fringe group who's beliefs are probable cause to the T-Stasi-A.
solution: substitute self-esteem index for math scores. Problem fixed!
We f****** doomed
ask the fuckin teachers union
It would be interesting to see a chart back to 1965 when the "Elementary and Secondary Education Act" was enacted. This was when the federal government decided to get into education in a big way.
Don't need no stnkin' language skillz to play battlefield on teh XBox.
Are kids are doing just fine.
Who needs to read with Netflix at only $8/month?
FYI math scores are also starting to decline since 2007
And if you look at the trend line, it is indicating further drops in scores down the road.
Probable causes:
- gutting the nuclear family (2 parents have to work to barely survive... who is left to properly raise the kids?)
- gutting the public education system and diminishing investment into children
- evidence that fewer people respect reading in popular culture, especially reading language intensive books
The question then is: how are kids going to do in 20 years? Especially when it is taken into account that the probable causes listed are only going to worsen.
Complex language, one of the few things that separates us from other life forms, and fewer people are learning it. This can't be good.
Also, check out the math portion:
http://www.guzer.com/pictures/findx.php
Maths are harder.
The Chicago teachers go on strike and I thought this is cool, in these difficult times a teachers' strike should last about as long as an NHL strike and the next day the teachers are back in class. crazy.
Luckily for us the MASS ARREST and the virtual dissolution of the government as we know it will be the death of "public education".
Fuck the SAT scores or GRE scores. Those exams are set up to protect the status quo in the first place so that students don't know how to think and what to think on their own.
Don't you get 400 points just for putting your name on the page?
I'll tell ya' how dumb we are in America now. 90%+ are going to vote for either Ro-money or O'bomb-a and actually believe that they are making the right choice. That tells the whole story right there.
Critical thinking is dead.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRQijskAMp4
Couple of points:
The big drop came in the mid 70's, when drugs really took root in the high schools. I know cause I was there. They don't call it dope for nothing.
Also I scored way above the average even though I was marginally autistic. I would say that describes most of todays yutes, and yet they are still dumber than me.
Plus all the environmental factors are pushing them down, although I know a few young'uns who are smarter than almost all the adults. They never drink tapwater, almost never watch TV, and they read multiple books per week.
The stupidifacation of amuraca is all aroun us. Everyday life examples: drivers who lane hop, go slow in the fast lane, tailgate, cut others off, etc, etc...; cash registers that calculate change because the cashiers can't; persons who watch whatever mindless garbage is spewed on TV instead of picking up a book; Acorn and CETA workers; NEW obama bumper stickers in spite of the past four years; on and on and on and on...
Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Harbin Medical University, Harbin 150081, Heilongjiang, China.
AbstractThere has been public concern about children's intellectual performance at high levels of fluoride exposure, but few studies provide data directly to the question of whether low fluoride exposure levels less than 3.0 mg/L in drinking water adversely associated with children's intelligence. In this survey, we investigated the effects of low fluoride exposure on children's intelligence and dental fluorosis. 331 children aged from 7 to 14 were randomly recruited from four sites in Hulunbuir City, China. Intelligence was assessed using Combined Raven Test-The Rural in China while dental fluorosis was diagnosed with Dean's index. Mean value of fluoride in drinking water was 1.31±1.05 mg/L (range 0.24-2.84). Urine fluoride was inversely associated with IQ in the multiple linear regression model when children's age as a covariate variable was taken into account (P<0.0001). Each increase in 1 mg/L of urine fluoride associated with 0.59-point decrease in IQ (P=0.0226). Meanwhile, there was a dose-response relationship between urine fluoride and dental fluorosis (P<0.0001). In conclusion, our study suggested that low levels of fluoride exposure in drinking water had negative effects on children's intelligence and dental health and confirmed the dose-response relationships between urine fluoride and IQ scores as well as dental fluorosis.
Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
AbstractBackground: Although fluoride may cause neurotoxicity in animal models and acute fluoride poisoning causes neurotoxicity in adults, very little is known of its effects on children's neurodevelopment. Objective: We performed a systematic review and meta-analysis of published studies to investigate the effects of increased fluoride exposure and delayed neurobehavioral development. Methods: We searched the MEDLINE, EMBASE, Water Resources Abstracts, and TOXNET databases through 2011 for eligible studies. We also searched the China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) database, as many studies on fluoride neurotoxicity have been published in Chinese journals only. In total, we identified 27 eligible epidemiological studies with high and reference exposures, endpoints of IQ scores or related cognitive function measures with means and variances for the two exposure groups. We estimated the standardized mean difference (SMD) between exposed and reference groups across all studies using random effects models. We conducted sensitivity analyses restricted to studies using the same outcome assessment and having drinking water fluoride as the only exposure. Cochran test for heterogeneity between studies, Begg's funnel plot and Egger test to assess publication bias were performed. Meta-regressions to explore sources of variation in mean differences among the studies were conducted. Results: The standardized weighted mean difference in IQ score between exposed and reference populations was -0.45 (95% CI -0.56 to -0.35) using a random-effects model. Thus, children in high fluoride areas had significantly lower IQ scores than those who lived in low fluoride areas. Subgroup and sensitivity analyses also indicated inverse associations, although the substantial heterogeneity did not appear to decrease. Conclusions: The results support the possibility of an adverse effect of high fluoride exposure on children's neurodevelopment. Future research should include detailed individual-level information on prenatal exposure, neurobehavioral performance, and covariates for adjustment.
back to flippin' burgers...
It's much worse than that chart of SAT scores suggests. 15 years ago the SAT verbal scores were "renormed" Seems the midwestern white kids that originally normed the scores are no longer representative of who is taking the tests. Bottom line is that roughly 80 points were added at the 520 level. That means that a 520 in 1978 would appear as a 600 today. There really is no precedent for the loss of verbal skills that we are seeing in modern America. But hey, this is the greatest country in the world.
hey, I think I'm Big Meech... Larry Hoover!
the education crime syndicate racketeers have made college education nearly mandatory for even the most fucktarded of reasons so everyone gets panhandled through the testing process - of course the scores will fall - but considering it all, the scores have only fallen about 20 or so points over 40 years, proving that most college gradeates ain't too much smarter than thems that aint....
This is just remarkulas, and borders on the incredutatious.
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When you exclude all the illegal alien's kids the scores are flat, unfortunately the illegal alien kids are the super majority of kids and the super majority of our future.
Cost shifting works.
I have a DVD of the movie 'Idiotocracy' that predicts our future. Except it is happening faster as people dumb down faster.
McDonalds is a career choice
Elementary school teacher Principal busted for Meth dealing http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/South-Bay-principal-jailed-for-drugs-3889745.php#ixzz27Q0QOylD
In case you were wondering how a elementary school principal could be busted for Meth dealing, yes, of course he's a homosexual, no doubt a leftist advocate of criminal invasion too.
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I would like to see this graphed along with levels of hispanic immigration. I bet there is an obvious correlation. I tutored low income kids for a year, of which 95% or so were Hispanic. They could barely read, and couldn't even add or subtract properly...in the sixth grade...
I would hedge by buying low-income birth rates.
Ax me about how we lead the world in Ebonics