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Solo en Japón | Pasar el rato — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 11:03:24 +0000

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Solo en Japón | Desvariando Ando: Humor, imagenes, videos y curiosidades — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 09:51:41 +0000

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By: ONLY in JAPAN «

ONLY in JAPAN « — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 06:13:41 +0000

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By: bob

bob — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 05:26:51 +0000

Of course, you could hit http://www.engrish.com for a ton more!

By: hahaha jim

hahaha jim — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 17:18:26 +0000

hahaha Jim everyone seems to think your intelligence is over estimated. Nice work, you have made us all proud.

By: Now I’ve Seen it All « Vandamonium’s Weblog

Now I’ve Seen it All « Vandamonium’s Weblog — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 16:19:10 +0000

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By: SadPanda

SadPanda — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 09:37:09 +0000

do forgive me the typo: it’s “cites”, not “sites”

(oops: just dropped a few places in PISA)

By: SadPanda

SadPanda — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 09:01:53 +0000

@chiron. “Germany, for all its scientific knowledge, has shown some deficiencies in its ethics or morality, in past decades”. That goes for any country if you ask me, and for any decade.

However, you asked for some sites:

every three years an international comparison study takes place (Program for International Student Assessment, PISA) in which 43 countries participate. The last one was in 2006.
The quality of American education on almost any field is below average (not the lowest) .
E.g. the average problem solving literacy score is 500, for the US it’s 477.
Also the result of the Adult Literacy and Lifeskills Survey (ALL) isn’t much of a compliment either.
International comparisons are a good benchmark, but it is much more interesting to see how these scores evolve inside the US, and that is the biggest problem.

IMHO, the US are degrading into a class-society without a middle class to back the economy up, which is going to cost them a lot of international influence in the decades to come.

By: Simon

Simon — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 07:30:11 +0000

I’m calling Godwin’s, an associative fallacy at least.

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