These statistics will never filter through to the general American psyche until Hollywood and mass media start portraying the US as such.
And I'm not sure they should, regardless of the truth. Hope is important,and it is what drives a fair amount of innovation in the US I believe. That feeling of superiority, of invincibility. Do you really want to replace that with reality? What can the average American do now within the two party system and the way the politics are set up to effect any sort of change? On 10 October 2012 12:13, Larry C. Lyons <[email protected]> wrote: > > Proportionately there are more poor in the US and more children who go > hungry at night than the other industrialized nations. According to > the OECD educational ranking in educational performance, the US > doesn't even make the top 20 for reading, maths or sciences for the > 8th grade - the best ranking was in science 22nd. > > > http://www.geographic.org/country_ranks/educational_score_performance_country_ranks_2009_oecd.html > > American 15-year-olds scored at the international average of > industrialized nations in science and reading and below the > international average in math on the most recent Program for > International Student Assessment, or PISA, released last year. > (http://www.oecd.org/pisa/pisaproducts/pisa2009keyfindings.htm) > > BTW notice how those nasty countries defined as socialist seem to be > doing much better on the measures of Science, Maths and Reading. After > all who needs thinking, the party of god will tell you want to think > via Faux. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:355864 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
