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Title: Buchanan: Is The Sun Rising In The East?
Source: Human Events
URL Source: http://www.humanevents.com/2013/12/06/is-the-sun-rising-in-the-east/
Published: Dec 6, 2013
Author: Patrick J. Buchanan
Post Date: 2013-12-06 18:15:52 by Brian S
Keywords: None
Views: 3514
Comments: 6

The scores are in from the 2012 Program for International Student Assessment, which, every three years, tests 15-year-olds from the world’s most advanced countries.

For the United States, the report card is dismal. The U.S. ranking has fallen to 17th in reading, 21st in science, and 26th in math.

Florida, one of America’s diverse mega-states, competed separately in the PISA exam, and scored below the U.S. average.

In the academic Olympics, the American superpower is a mediocrity.

Ranked one through seven in test scores in reading, science and math were Shanghai- China, Singapore, Hong Kong-China, Taiwan, South Korea, Macau-China, Japan. Also well ahead of the United States is Vietnam.

By and large, Western Europe has moved out in front of us and our close competitors are the Slovak Republic and Russian Federation.

Fifteen-year-olds in two ex-Soviet republics, Estonia and Latvia, also posted grades in math and science superior to those of America’s young.

Education Secretary Arne Duncan calls the PISA test scores a “brutal truth” that “must serve as a wake-up call” for the country.

Excuse me, but how many wake-up calls do we need?

In October 1957, we got our first when the brutalitarian and backward superpower built by Josef Stalin beat America into space.

Two months later, our answer to Sputnik, a three-pound satellite, was to be launched by a Vanguard rocket from Cape Canaveral, to get us back in the race. It got four feet off the ground, when the rocket exploded.

Egg all over our face, we were rescued from national humiliation by the Redstone Arsenal rocket crew of Wernher von Braun who built the V-2s that had rained down on London. Von Braun put an 80-pound Explorer into orbit, and we were back in the game.

While the first manned space flight was made by Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, America, under Presidents Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon, took command and put an American on the moon in July 1969.

Meanwhile, the country was on fire over the issue of education.

In LBJ’s Great Society legislation in 1965 came the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, which poured enormous amounts into our pubic schools.

In 1983, came “A Nation at Risk: The Imperative For Educational Reform,” the report of President Ronald Reagan’s National Commission on Excellence in Education. Conclusion: America’s schools, even then, thirty years ago, were failing the nation.

Under George W. Bush and Barack Obama, we got another surge in spending with No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top.

How can a lack of money explain our declining test scores when America continues to spend more per capita on education than almost any other country? Yet, the more we spend, the lower the test scores we get back in global competition?

Some insist the persistence of poverty in an affluent America is the cause of these declining test scores.

Yet, have we not fought a 50-year war on poverty since LBJ’s Great Society? And not only have countless trillions of dollars been spent, the poor in America receive benefits of which the world’s poor could only dream.

America’s poor receive free food, free health care and free education for their children from Head Start to K-12. The poor get subsidized housing and subsidized incomes. They are exempt from federal income taxes. State programs and private charities pick up where the feds leave off.

Yet, if poverty explains the dismal performance of America’s students, why are they being lapped by Vietnamese 15-year-olds?

Do the Vietnamese have a higher per capita income than we?

Is there less poverty and more emphasis on education in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City than New York City and Washington, D.C.?

Is home environment behind the disparity in test scores?

Forty percent of American children are born out of wedlock, but for Hispanics it is 53 percent and for African-Americans 73 percent.

Looking again at those PISA test scores, other than East Asia — China, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, Vietnam — hardly any other nation of Southeast or South Asia, the Arab or Muslim world, Africa or Latin America, is in the top forty in academic performance.

And, in these test scores from a diverse world, we can see mirrored the academic performance within our own diverse nation.

Just as East Asians and Europeans excel in the PISA tests, so, too, do Americans of East Asian and European descent dominate test scores and excel in educational achievement, while our Hispanic and African-American students trail.

At top universities like Berkeley, Stanford and in the Ivy League, too, Asian and white Americans are overrepresented in the student bodies.

Yet, Hispanic and African-Americans are more than 30 percent of the U.S. population and 35 percent of those in our public schools.

Increasingly, these minorities will represent the nation in international academic competitions.

Where, then, are the grounds for optimism that we can turn this around?

And if we cannot, ought we not accept the inevitable?

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#1. To: Brian S (#0)

For the United States, the report card is dismal. The U.S. ranking has fallen to 17th in reading, 21st in science, and 26th in math.

There sure are a lot of stupid Americans. We can blame 99 percent of that on liberal pieces of shit. You know like the murderering cock sucker you voted for.

All those stupid people just make it easier for us smarter folk to stay employed. No one wants to hire some liberal Obama moron.

So stay in school kids. Stay away from libshitheads.

A K A Stone  posted on  2013-12-06   18:42:08 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Brian S (#0)

Ranked one through seven in test scores in reading, science and math were Shanghai- China, Singapore, Hong Kong-China, Taiwan, South Korea, Macau-China, Japan. Also well ahead of the United States is Vietnam.

And not a single one of these countries has affirmative action curriculum's,teachers,or students.

Nor do any of them have "Black History" departments at their universities.

I'm sure this is all just a coincidence,though.

Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)

sneakypete  posted on  2013-12-06   20:20:20 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: sneakypete (#2)

What would the test scores be if they just counted the real Americans? Not the wetbacks.

It is good that the enemy is dumb. I dominate dumb liberals all day long. I have a surcharge if you are a liberal. You pay extra.

A K A Stone  posted on  2013-12-06   20:32:29 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: A K A Stone (#3)

What would the test scores be if they just counted the real Americans? Not the wetbacks.

I have no idea,but I can tell you from personal experience that most of the 1st generation Mexican-American children I have known worked their asses off in school to get the best grades they could get so they wouldn't have to spend their lives as laborers,like their parents.

I spent a couple of years living in a Mexican neighborhood in Denver,and has zero problems based on me not being brown or able to speak Spanish. Beyond that,most of the people there acted very neighborly and friendly to me.

None of this would have happened in a black neighborhood,and I have never lived in a white neighborhood were everybody was so friendly.

It might not fit the stereotypes,but that WAS my experience. Frankly,I have always gotten along better with a larger percentage of them than the whites I have know. Even in the army.

Yeah,I have black eyes and most people probably thought I was one of them or I wouldn't have moved into the neighborhood. I know when I first moved in everybody tried to speak Spanish to me me and were surprised to learn I didn't understand them. It didn't take me long to clear that up,so they all knew I wasn't one of them pretty quickly and it made no difference at all.

I also confess to not being stupid,and not trying to date anybody's sister or wife in that neighborhood. I'm sure that helped.

The only thing that bothered me was a little boy named Ceasar that was growing up in a house with no men. Only his mother and his granny. He only lived two houses away. Ceasar would see me out in the yard working on my Harley,and he would come over on his bicycle and want me to help him "work" on it,or ask if he could play with my cat or my dog. Mostly,he needed a adult male to talk to instead of the drunken women that mostly screamed at him. It really pissed me off when his granny came out one day and started screaming at him to get back in the house and threw dirty looks my way. He was really a nice polite little kid,too. As far as I could tell they didn't even let him play with any of the neighborhood kids.

Of course,a couple of months earlier I had gone out into the street at around 2 AM and stuck a shotgun barrel inside the ear of his mother's boyfriend (Ceasar's father?)and told him "go ahead and blow that bleeping horn one more time if you really think that's what you need to do" before sending him off on his way. He came back the next night after midnight blowing his horn all the way down the block,but he didn't slow down or even stop at the stop sign,and as far as I know that was the last time he was seen or heard there. Maybe his mother and grannie were pissed off about that?

Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)

sneakypete  posted on  2013-12-07   1:58:41 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: sneakypete (#4)

It might not fit the stereotypes,but that WAS my experience.

There are good people of every race. I live on a street with almost all whites. I hardly like any of them. :) Hell I don't know most of them. They just sit in their houses all day mostly. I'm almost the only one outside regularly.

A K A Stone  posted on  2013-12-07   2:03:19 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: A K A Stone (#5)

I live on a street with almost all whites. I hardly like any of them. :) Hell I don't know most of them.

LOL! That's my experience,also. The best thing that can be said about them is they leave me alone.

Which is actually one of the best things I can say about anybody. If you need help getting your car started or a ride to the ER,come get me. Leave me the hell alone other than for neighborly help,though. I don't want to be your BFF,and I don't want to be involved in your family fights.

Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)

sneakypete  posted on  2013-12-07   13:08:02 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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