All children left behind! U.S. teachers earn 'F'

[Confederate Kahanist]

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A global economics group has found that U.S. 15-year-olds rank 25th among peers from 34 countries in math and average in subjects such as science and reading, Jerome Corsi's Red Alert reports.

The Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development, or OECD, has released the results of the 2009 Program for International Student Assessment, a test the U.S. government considers one of the most comprehensive measures of international achievement.

The outcome led Bloomberg to report that the results raised "concerns that the U.S. isn't prepared to succeed in the global economy."

Corsi wrote, "The low scores appear at a time when the teachers union, the National Teachers Association, or NEA, exerts more power than ever over the nation's public schools and state budgetary concerns, causing states to re-evaluate a broad range of issues, including teacher salaries, teacher performance and teacher pensions."

Education Secretary Arne Duncan said in a telephone interview with Bloomberg that U.S. students must improve to compete in a world economy. Still, he had no specific recommendations for how that improvement could be achieved.

"The brutal fact here is that many countries that there are far ahead of us and improving more rapidly than we are," Duncan said. "This should be a massive wake-up call to the entire country."

For more information on the NEA's power over U.S. education and low student scores on the international test, read Jerome Corsi's Red Alert, the premium, online intelligence news source by the WND staff writer, columnist and author of the New York Times No. 1 best-seller, "The Obama Nation."

Red Alert's author, who received a doctorate from Harvard in political science in 1972, is the author of the No. 1 New York Times best-sellers "The Obama Nation" and (with co-author John E. O'Neill) "Unfit for Command." He is also the author of several other books, including "America for Sale," "The Late Great U.S.A." and "Why Israel Can't Wait." In addition to serving as a senior staff reporter for WorldNetDaily, Corsi is a senior managing director in the financial-services group at Gilford Securities.

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http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=238965

A global economics group has found that U.S. 15-year-olds rank 25th among peers from 34 countries in math and average in subjects such as science and reading, Jerome Corsi's Red Alert reports.

The Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development, or OECD, has released the results of the 2009 Program for International Student Assessment, a test the U.S. government considers one of the most comprehensive measures of international achievement.

The outcome led Bloomberg to report that the results raised "concerns that the U.S. isn't prepared to succeed in the global economy."

Corsi wrote, "The low scores appear at a time when the teachers union, the National Teachers Association, or NEA, exerts more power than ever over the nation's public schools and state budgetary concerns, causing states to re-evaluate a broad range of issues, including teacher salaries, teacher performance and teacher pensions."

Education Secretary Arne Duncan said in a telephone interview with Bloomberg that U.S. students must improve to compete in a world economy. Still, he had no specific recommendations for how that improvement could be achieved.

"The brutal fact here is that many countries that there are far ahead of us and improving more rapidly than we are," Duncan said. "This should be a massive wake-up call to the entire country."

For more information on the NEA's power over U.S. education and low student scores on the international test, read Jerome Corsi's Red Alert, the premium, online intelligence news source by the WND staff writer, columnist and author of the New York Times No. 1 best-seller, "The Obama Nation."

Red Alert's author, who received a doctorate from Harvard in political science in 1972, is the author of the No. 1 New York Times best-sellers "The Obama Nation" and (with co-author John E. O'Neill) "Unfit for Command." He is also the author of several other books, including "America for Sale," "The Late Great U.S.A." and "Why Israel Can't Wait." In addition to serving as a senior staff reporter for WorldNetDaily, Corsi is a senior managing director in the financial-services group at Gilford Securities.

Yes, but I bet they rank 1st in texting and updating their Facebook pages. Remember, it's the important things that count in this world.