A recent survey revealed that American students knowledge of the world is woeful. On a world globe, 64% could not locate France, 78% could not locate Saudia Arabia, 22% said the Dead Sea was in Death Valley! & 35% did not know the capital city of Australia or Germany. This is but a part of the survey that does not bode well for education in general for the US.
2007-02-26 00:20:32 · 3 answers · asked by DAVE 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
As long as they know where the nearest burger king is they don't care.
2007-02-26 00:23:30 · answer #1 · answered by ? 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
international test scores paint a similar picture. perhaps its all the free time students have while attending school, or the social problems of a high divorce rate/ broken families, drug/alcohol abuse. I had to attend school 6.5 days a year, wear a uniform, acting up in school was not even a remote possibility as we would be strapped. After graduation I had mastered three languages, and was fully prepared for university. Students here are taught to code java now starting in grade 7-8, and other necessary coding/programming computer skills. I would like to point out that I grew up in Asia ( Islamic country [ gasp ] ), not America
2007-02-26 08:27:41 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I hope so. If they still do then they are doing a terrible job at it.
2007-02-26 08:24:34 · answer #3 · answered by Dr Dee 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋