On Dec 4, 2007, at 9:09 AM, Stewart Dean wrote:
I found this interesting...Finland has just come out tops again in
the latest PISA evaluation of secondary school student science
prowess as it has been for some years. The US, no surprise, comes
out in the middle as Joe and Jill SixPack think that achievement in
anything much less math and science (they're hard!) is for geeks. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/4073753.stm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Programme_for_International_Student_Assessment Must be those long winters where there's nothing to do but study :)
Oh, don't get me started. I'm so sick of the BudLight-swilling,
NASCAR-watching, WalMart-loving morons that I'm about ready to go
find a deserted island somewhere.
-Dave-- Dave McGuire Port Charlotte, FL Farewell Ophelia, 9/22/1991 - 7/25/2007