LOL, out of 193 countries, that's pretty good. Some 157 are worse! Plus, it depends on what you search for, and how, and if the source is full of nonsense... for example, AI says North Korea is 100%. I call BS on that. It compares Andorra a rich country, with only 80k citizens, and India, with a billion. So, because it's comparing a retirement community, Andorra, and a country cut off from the rest of the planet, North Korea, with countries with the largest population, China/India and countries with the most tech, and countries with thousands of years of literature and schools, vs countries with less than a 100 years of public schools... I think any one who graduated from a US public high school with a 3.0 gpa can make more sense of the literacy skills compared between countries than the AI search results I got. But, regardless, I think that the USA is top 20 when compared equitably between other similar sized countries, with taxpayer funded schools, where kids don't have to learn multiple languages. To get a realistic way to judge such a thing, would be a matter of size of student class, complexity of education (languages (chinese or Japanese most difficult), teacher to student ratio, number of grades) age of legal labor (do kids have to work full time in high school or do they get a school only existence) and are they given more than 12 years of school before they have to pay for more (many European countries give a couple more years free or nearly free (less than 10,000 dollars/pounds/Euro) for 4 year university degree. However, the USA does pretty good while education is such a low priority and so little is in the state and federal budget for it. Especially compared to the countries with little or no military spending, and a focus on social services and education. I recall hearing there is a country that makes sure any student that wants a masters degree gets it, free, as long as they can academically make it. This of course makes that countries economy better off by having higher educated white collar business managers. Anyway, I think you zigged instead of zagged on the cheap tool with the spelling error, on such a simple word.
Nah, I checked around some before posting, to avoid being accused of bias or doing cherrypicking (didn't work, did it?). Even found that Denmark wasn't in the top tier either, which annoyed me a bit. Didn't see anywhere that NORK has a 100% literacy rate, so I guess we aim for different sources or just have different ways of . The best I could find for the US was an 86% literacy rate, which - as you point out - is better than the next 157 countries.
Doesn't matter, the most generous study of literary skills places the US in 36th place worldwide. Better schools and better paid teachers, please.
ReplyDeleteLOL, out of 193 countries, that's pretty good. Some 157 are worse! Plus, it depends on what you search for, and how, and if the source is full of nonsense... for example, AI says North Korea is 100%. I call BS on that. It compares Andorra a rich country, with only 80k citizens, and India, with a billion. So, because it's comparing a retirement community, Andorra, and a country cut off from the rest of the planet, North Korea, with countries with the largest population, China/India and countries with the most tech, and countries with thousands of years of literature and schools, vs countries with less than a 100 years of public schools...
DeleteI think any one who graduated from a US public high school with a 3.0 gpa can make more sense of the literacy skills compared between countries than the AI search results I got.
But, regardless, I think that the USA is top 20 when compared equitably between other similar sized countries, with taxpayer funded schools, where kids don't have to learn multiple languages.
To get a realistic way to judge such a thing, would be a matter of size of student class, complexity of education (languages (chinese or Japanese most difficult), teacher to student ratio, number of grades) age of legal labor (do kids have to work full time in high school or do they get a school only existence) and are they given more than 12 years of school before they have to pay for more (many European countries give a couple more years free or nearly free (less than 10,000 dollars/pounds/Euro) for 4 year university degree.
However, the USA does pretty good while education is such a low priority and so little is in the state and federal budget for it. Especially compared to the countries with little or no military spending, and a focus on social services and education. I recall hearing there is a country that makes sure any student that wants a masters degree gets it, free, as long as they can academically make it. This of course makes that countries economy better off by having higher educated white collar business managers.
Anyway, I think you zigged instead of zagged on the cheap tool with the spelling error, on such a simple word.
Nah, I checked around some before posting, to avoid being accused of bias or doing cherrypicking (didn't work, did it?). Even found that Denmark wasn't in the top tier either, which annoyed me a bit. Didn't see anywhere that NORK has a 100% literacy rate, so I guess we aim for different sources or just have different ways of . The best I could find for the US was an 86% literacy rate, which - as you point out - is better than the next 157 countries.
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