Jimmy Carter nationalized the US education system when the Department of Education was created in 1980.
Since that time our core test scores against the world have declined.
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Test scores have dropped even more during the last few years. It's interesting that the longer kids are in the US Education system, the worse their performance seemingly is.
"Younger American students fare somewhat better on a similar cross-national assessment, the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study. That study, known as TIMSS, has tested students in grades four and eight every four years since 1995. In the most recent tests, from 2015, 10 countries (out of 48 total) had statistically higher average fourth-grade math scores than the U.S., while seven countries had higher average science scores. In the eighth-grade tests, seven out of 37 countries had statistically higher average math scores than the U.S., and seven had higher science scores."
Meanwhile there is a growing shortage of accountants and engineers, even though from 1960 to 2022 the college graduate rate went from 7.7% to 37.7% of the population.
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There is also a looming shortage for plumbers and electricians in the US.
For too long we have been steering every high school student to college (to continue the educational monopoly) at the expense of the trades (though that trend is starting to reverse). We've also been social engineering in high schools and colleges by expanding liberal art programs at the expense of accounting, engineering, etc. though that trend has recently been reversing.
Trump and Musk aren't necessarily wrong about the need for H-1Bs. We've made our bed over the last 40 years, now we need to lie in it for a while.
Since that time our core test scores against the world have declined.
U.S. students’ academic achievement still lags that of their peers in many other countries
American students continue to rank around the middle of the pack, and behind many other advanced industrial nations, in international assessments of math, science and reading.
www.pewresearch.org
Test scores have dropped even more during the last few years. It's interesting that the longer kids are in the US Education system, the worse their performance seemingly is.
"Younger American students fare somewhat better on a similar cross-national assessment, the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study. That study, known as TIMSS, has tested students in grades four and eight every four years since 1995. In the most recent tests, from 2015, 10 countries (out of 48 total) had statistically higher average fourth-grade math scores than the U.S., while seven countries had higher average science scores. In the eighth-grade tests, seven out of 37 countries had statistically higher average math scores than the U.S., and seven had higher science scores."
Meanwhile there is a growing shortage of accountants and engineers, even though from 1960 to 2022 the college graduate rate went from 7.7% to 37.7% of the population.
Educational attainment in the U.S. 1960-2022 | Statista
In 2021, about 37.7 percent of the U.S.
www.statista.com
There is also a looming shortage for plumbers and electricians in the US.
For too long we have been steering every high school student to college (to continue the educational monopoly) at the expense of the trades (though that trend is starting to reverse). We've also been social engineering in high schools and colleges by expanding liberal art programs at the expense of accounting, engineering, etc. though that trend has recently been reversing.
Trump and Musk aren't necessarily wrong about the need for H-1Bs. We've made our bed over the last 40 years, now we need to lie in it for a while.
