US quietly withdraws from international math/science test

Liberal_in_LA

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Sat Aug-11-07 05:20 PM
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US quietly withdraws from international math/science test

My how the mighty have fallen!
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20205125/site/newsweek/

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The United States has quietly withdrawn from an international study comparing math and science students.

Conspiracy theorists suggest that the U.S. government withdrew from the study without making any announcement because it anticipated another poor showing. �Maybe they don�t want to hear more bad news,� says John Ewing, executive director of the American Mathematical Society.

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Xipe Totec

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Sat Aug-11-07 05:26 PM
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1. The reason I don't think it's a conspiracy

is that they would have to put two and two together.

And I just don't think our gooberment is up to the challenge.

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skids

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Sat Aug-11-07 05:27 PM
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3. Ow.

I just burned the roof of my mouth with a hot slice of pizza, and it's all your fault.

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Liberal_in_LA

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Sat Aug-11-07 05:29 PM
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5. If US had a chance of scoring #1 we'd participate, not matter what the cost

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Lisa

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Sat Aug-11-07 05:27 PM
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2. American Mathematical Society = "conspiracy theorists"?

I'm grinning, as I forward this to every math and stats graduate I know...

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AtomicKitten

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Sat Aug-11-07 05:28 PM
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4. that's cuz we are stoopud

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Solly Mack

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Sat Aug-11-07 05:33 PM
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6. and proudly enters the creation and beget test

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Deja Q

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Sat Aug-11-07 05:37 PM
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7. Oprah, Steve Jobs, and others talk of America's youth...

Except she's almost as self-absorbed as "Doctor" Phil, he dumbs down people with his overpriced garbage (and then calls them stupid, *cough* ), and they still have a point about many children not wanting to learn, because they'd rather have iPods...

Even our social media promotes it. At that retail store, they have signs for Dizzney's "High School Vacation" broadway musical tripe-laden whatever it is. The kid in the green shirt looks smug, then read the shirt that reads something like "I got an A in vacation". Well, whomever had said media isn't an influence is full of a soft brown mushy substance that isn't mashed mushrooms in gravy.

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