Jed,
Yes I was referring to high school grads for that rating, but it really
doesn't matter. It is not so much the college grads that will be losing
their jobs (although some like pharmacists etc will.) it is more that
there won't be other jobs to go to.
For a more pessimistic look see below. Also a very funny summary about
the presidential candidates.
http://fredoneverything.org/ready-ronald-mcdonald-or-lucretia-borgia-in-the-long-run-we-are-all-dead/
AA
On 10/22/2016 4:02 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote:
a.ashfield <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
It could have been written more clearly with half the number of words.
They seem to think that displaced workers can be retrained for
better jobs, something that seems increasingly unlikely with
current graduates dead last in the world in math and science.
U.S. college grads are first in math and science. Perhaps you mean
high school graduates. That statistic is somewhat suspect because a
higher fraction of the population graduates from highschool in the
U.S. than from some other countries.
The same problem confuses a discussion on the effects of funding on
education. People have noted that New York and Massachusetts spend far
more per capita on primary education than, say, Alabama or North
Dakota even taking into account regional consumer cost differences.
New York is the highest in the world, I think, at $19,818 per child.
Yet SAT scores in North Dakota are higher than New York, 1799 versus
1463. This is taken as proof that spending money on education does not
work.
That argument falls apart when you look at the fraction of students
taking the SAT test. 76% of kids in New York take the test, lowering
the average score. Only 7% of the kids in Alabama take the SAT, and 2%
in North Dakota. The top 2% of New York kids are far ahead of the 2%
of kids in North Dakota who take the SAT. I believe the top 2% of kids
from New York probably have the highest academic scores in the world.
They are ahead of the average kids in Japan, and equal to the elite in
Japan, in my opinion. I base that on my somewhat subjective experience
in elite schools and universities in New York state and in Japan.
See:
https://ballotpedia.org/Public_education_in_New_York
https://ballotpedia.org/Public_education_in_Alabama
https://ballotpedia.org/Public_education_in_North_Dakota
