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发帖数: 21374 | 1 The latest analysis of international math scores will have some disturbing
news for Canadian professionals spending loads of cash on tutoring and
enrichment for their kids: Their offspring were outmatched by the children
of janitors in Shanghai.
Ever since the PISA exam scores were announced in December, parents and
education experts have been fretting over Canada’s 13th-place ranking in
math. But when parental education is taken into account, it turns out the
children of the country’s doctors and lawyers fall even further in the
rankings: They placed 22nd when compared to their similarly advantaged peers
around the world.
Canadian students with parents working in the least-skilled jobs, such as
cleaners and couriers, may have answered, on average, fewer questions
correctly than the better-off students in their class. But when ranked
against their global peers, they did much better – placing 10th. (One
caveat: The sample size of students by category varied between countries,
sometimes significantly – Leichtenstein, for instance, recorded a very
small number of students from this group, so wasn’t counted.)
The good news: Canada has one of the most equal-opportunity education
systems in the world, according to the OECD study.
“We do a very good job, and put a lot of energy, into being average,” says
Miles Corak, an economics professor at the University of Ottawa, who
studies equality. “This is good because in not letting the least advantaged
kids – in terms of family resources – fall behind, we have an overall
higher score, and frankly in the long run, a more inclusive society.”
At the same time, Corak observes, “average is increasingly not good enough.
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发帖数: 21627 | 2 白人小年轻的确笨。在学校就是打球喝酒开party
无论是智商和闯劲比他们的父辈差远了。
更不要说他们的爷爷辈。 |
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