The ACT/SAT is possibly the worst way to measure public schools. They don't even filter out students who go to private or home school so it's not a measure of public school systems. The ACT/SAT also doesn't take into consideration race or income which is why the states that do the best are just the states that have the most white people (Iowa and such). You can ignore obvious relevant stats such as income (of course poor people do worse than rich people) but that would be willfully ignorant.
I would love to see SAT scores normalized by race and income. But I think as a whole, SAT scores really measures how prepared students are after H.S in a state. Certainly a lot more relevant than graduation rates imo.
I would agree (to some extent), but since the SAT/ACT doesn't consider relevant factors like income or to a lesser extent race and doesn't filter out private and home school students, it is worthless for comparative purposes. It would be like saying Matt Barnes is better than Kevin Martin because the Lakers had more wins than the Rockets last season. Wins are more important than anything else, but it is still worthless because it doesn't factor in anything. Others are saying Texas has a bad public school system relative to other states because the SAT/ACT scores are low. Who cares? It is not a meaningful statistic since it ignores demographics.
I like how Krugman says the Texas economy is booming partly because our weather attracts people. That's hilarious.
I've honestly never really understood why students get horrible scores on standardized tests like SATs, beyond that the educational system sucks bananas. I did very well on my SATs. Just took the new GRE a week ago, and the preliminary guess came out about the same. My education growing up, at least when it pertains to stuff tested. 1. Listening to teachers in class. At least I went to good public schools with good funding. 2. Reading books, fictional kinds with no literary value, that I borrow from public libraries 3. Watching TV, a little PBS(loved Nova growing up) but otherwise brain-killers with no value 4. Playing video games, way too much of it. 5. Wasting time on the internet, way too much of it I didn't grow up in a rich household. I didn't have tutors or went to test-prep schools. I wasn't particularly studious. I'm above average in intelligence, but hardly a genius. So at least looking at it from a personal standpoint, I feel that our educational system must be really messed up that I can score so high on these tests.
What does the process of following in order or sequence have to do with Rick Perry? Could you be thinking about the average American's knowledge of secession?
Threatening the Fed Chair with violence Questioning the patriotism of the President Calling for a moratorium on ALL regulations Yep! Buckle up on the crazy train!
if only we had an idea of how a mildly r****ded GOP governor from texas would be as president... (stolen)
I liked Conan O'Brien's take on it: Rick Perry is a religious, right-wing conservative who's a former pilot and the governor of Texas. Finally! One of those!
I don't know if this was posted already. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44154515/ns/politics-decision_2012/#.TkpuxGHSzHo Perry says Fed playing politics with money GOP presidential candidate says 'almost treacherous' for central banking system to print more money now CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Monday broadly attacked the Federal Reserve, accusing the central banking system of manipulating currency for political gain. "Printing more money to play politics at this particular time in American history is almost treacherous or treasonous in my opinion," Perry, who officially entered the GOP presidential race on Saturday, said in his first full day of campaigning. He went on to say that promoters of such an idea — hinting but not naming Fed chief Ben Bernanke specifically — would get an "ugly" treatment in his home state of Texas. Perry made the comments in response to a question from the audience at a county Republican Party fundraiser about what he would do with the Federal Reserve. "We have tried to print the money and it didn't work. All it has done is devalue the American dollar," he told reporters after the event. Perry told members of the media that his comment about the "treasonous" printing of money was directed specifically about at the Fed, not at President Barack Obama. But Perry also declined earlier to say whether or not he believes the current president loves America. "You need to ask him," he said.
