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Criss Colon · Jul 4, 2011

And the DR spends 2.3%.
And get nothing for that!
TYPICAL Dominican response to criticism,"Is just as bad,or Worse everywhere else!.....
NOT"!!!!!
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Even your METRO was designed,built,and now maintained by Europeans!

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bachata · Jul 12, 2011

This is the result of a bad administration of the DR education system. $40% of high school students fail national acknowledges test "Pruevas Nacionales"...

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Shame for Leonel Fernandez instead of wasting resources touring the world should pay attention to this lol.

JJ

bob saunders · Jul 12, 2011

bachata said:
This is the result of a bad administration of the DR education system. $40% of high school students fail national acknowledges test "Pruevas Nacionales"...

ElCaribe.com.do | Con Todo A Cada Minuto - Cree Preocupante 40 Estudiantes Reprobaran Pruebas

Shame for Leonel Fernandez instead of wasting resources touring the world should pay attention to this lol.

JJ

Isn't that up 20% from PRD days. LOL.

cobraboy · Jul 12, 2011

PICHARDO said:
Poll: 1776 date puzzles some Americans
By: CNN Political Unit
(CNN) - A slight majority of Americans know what year the United States declared independence, according to a new national survey.
The Marist Poll released in honor of America's Independence Day, July 4, showed 58 percent of residents aware their country declared independence in 1776. Twenty-six percent were unsure and 16 percent named another date. Younger Americans, those under 30 years of age, were less likely to have the correct answer with 31 percent, compared to Americans between the ages of 45 and 59 who said 1776 75 percent of the time.

One in four Americans also didn't know from which country the United States seceded, with 76 percent correctly naming Great Britain, 19 percent unsure and 5 percent naming another country.
The survey of 1,003 adults was conducted between June 15 and June 23 via telephone and had a sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.

Gee...
So much for US "M"education!

LOL! And Americans wonder why it's going down the crapper...

PICHARDO · Jul 12, 2011

Criss Colon said:
And the DR spends 2.3%.
And get nothing for that!
TYPICAL Dominican response to criticism,"Is just as bad,or Worse everywhere else!.....
NOT"!!!!!
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Even your METRO was designed,built,and now maintained by Europeans!

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PICHARDO said:
Poll: 1776 date puzzles some Americans
By: CNN Political Unit
(CNN) - A slight majority of Americans know what year the United States declared independence, according to a new national survey.
The Marist Poll released in honor of America's Independence Day, July 4, showed 58 percent of residents aware their country declared independence in 1776. Twenty-six percent were unsure and 16 percent named another date. Younger Americans, those under 30 years of age, were less likely to have the correct answer with 31 percent, compared to Americans between the ages of 45 and 59 who said 1776 75 percent of the time.

One in four Americans also didn't know from which country the United States seceded, with 76 percent correctly naming Great Britain, 19 percent unsure and 5 percent naming another country.
The survey of 1,003 adults was conducted between June 15 and June 23 via telephone and had a sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.

Gee...
So much for US "M"education!

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bachata · Jul 13, 2011

Fortunately my mother sent me to some of the best private school, I can tell that the highest grade I've attended was high school but I will debate about national, universal history or general knowledge with any Dominican professional who went to public school. the biggest shame in the world is a Dominican professional who have attended to night school (third shift) puro burros ni hablar saven (la gran mayoria).

It was hard for me when I was driving a car for a local radio taxi company but I always sent my two Dominican daughters to private school.
Education is the more important in life, when my family moved from Moca to Santiago in 1960 they was in the worse of the poverty level as my grandfather loose all his land (big farm) and had to start working as security guy ( sereno) in a public facility. But twenty years later my family was a successful Dominican family because the young people was educated.

JJ

bachata · Jul 13, 2011

Why are those kid shinning shoes when they are suppose to be at school?

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JJ

PICHARDO · Jul 13, 2011

bachata said:
Fortunately my mother sent me to some of the best private school, I can tell that the highest grade I've attended was high school but I will debate about national, universal history or general knowledge with any Dominican professional who went to public school. the biggest shame in the world is a Dominican professional who have attended to night school (third shift) puro burros ni hablar saven (la gran mayoria).

It was hard for me when I was driving a car for a local radio taxi company but I always sent my two Dominican daughters to private school.
Education is the more important in life, when my family moved from Moca to Santiago in 1960 they was in the worse of the poverty level as my grandfather loose all his land (big farm) and had to start working as security guy ( sereno) in a public facility. But twenty years later my family was a successful Dominican family because the young people was educated.

JJ

Saben! Not "saven"!!!

At least the "Burros" did know this one!
LOL!!

bachata · Jul 14, 2011

PICHARDO said:
Saben! Not "saven"!!!

At least the "Burros" did know this one!
LOL!!

Se me esta olvidando el Espanol.... LOL

JJ

minerva_feliz · Jul 17, 2011

AJL6767 · Jul 18, 2011

What can be learned is that money itself cannot guarantee a quality education..You tout the cuban educational system as a good example, but, with their high quality ( supposed ) education, even in the medical field, when Fidel Castro needed medical help, he either went to Spain or had doctors flown to Cuba for treatment. If the % of expense is your criteria, how much of a % is spent in Spain?
Also, the Cuban government makes everyone attend school, or be sent to penal institutions.
I believe that dominicans are more intelligent than Bolivians or Venezuelans and their choice of the type of government in the Dominican Republic over the type in Venezuela clearly demonstrates that.

bachata · Jul 22, 2011

I'm very impressed

We won't an education lottery for our Baby Crystal to attend classes at a bilingual (Spanish/English) school, my big surprise today was to see that 98% of the students are white American.
I thought there will be tons of Hispanics going to the same class with my daughter, American people wants their kids learn Spanish as a second language.

That means that Spanish is very important here in US!

JJ

PICHARDO · Jul 22, 2011

Elite Colleges? Students Fail Basic History Test
Posted 22 Oct, 2007
It may not have surprised you to read that college students don?t know much about the cultural origins of their cell phones, but wouldn?t you think that students of the most expensive colleges would be able to pass a basic U.S. History test?
Not so, according to a study recently released by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. To test the American college student?s ?civic literacy,? each of the 14,000 freshmen and senior from 50 U.S. colleges subjects took a 60-question quiz. The multiple-choice exam tested students? knowledge of U.S. history, government, economics, and international relations. (You can take the quiz for yourself if you?re curious!)Intercollegiate Studies Institute - Educating for Liberty

My test results : You answered 29 out of 33 correctly ? 87.88 % (UCMM graduate *before it became PUCMM)

Full Civic Literacy Exam (from our 2008 survey)
Are you more knowledgeable than the average citizen? The average score for all 2,508 Americans taking the following test was 49%; college educators scored 55%. Can you do better? Questions were drawn from past ISI surveys, as well as other nationally recognized exams.

You can probably guess the results from the title of this entry?the students of prestigious schools tended to show much less gain in civic knowledge than their smaller, regional counterparts. Cornell, Yale, Duke, and Princeton were at the bottom of those rankings this year!
But they aren?t the only schools whose students have trouble in this area. The average nationwide score in this study was 54.2%?that would translate to an ?F? on a real test! What?s even more embarrassing is that of all the colleges that participated in the survey, not one of them had an average score of a ?C? for their senior year participants!
I always tell my clients that just because a college has an expensive price tag or big name doesn?t guarantee that it will be the best fit for a particular student. A brand name can?t guarantee that a student will be provided with the most appropriate learning environment for him or her. Do your research?those four college years are important stepping stones to your child?s adult life!

PICHARDO · Jul 22, 2011

PICHARDO · Jul 22, 2011

Now go check this:
Elected Officials Score Lower than the General Public
Civic Literacy Report - Additional Finding

PICHARDO · Jul 22, 2011

All survey respondents were asked whether they have ever engaged in any of 13 different political and civic activities. These included, for example, registering to vote, signing a petition, contacting a public official, publishing a letter to the editor, and whether they have ever been elected to a government office.

Among the 2,508 respondents, 164 say they have been elected to a government office at least once. This sub-sample of officeholders yields a startling result: elected officials score lower than the general public. Those who have held elective office earn an average score of 44% on the civic literacy test, which is five percentage points lower than the average score of 49% for those who have never been elected. It would be most interesting to explore whether this statistically significant result is maintained across larger samples of elected officials.

The elected officeholders come from the ranks of Democrats (40%), Republicans (31%), Independents (21%), and those who say they belong to no party or indicate no affiliation (8%). None were asked to specify what office they held, so the proportion in which they held local, state, or federal positions is unknown.

Not all officeholders do poorly, of course. Some elected officials rank among the highest scorers. But the failure rate on the test among those who have won public office is higher (74%) than among those who have not (71%). Officeholders scored lower on all sub-themes of the test: political history, cultural institutions, foreign relations, and market economy.

In each of the following areas, for example, officeholders do more poorly than non-officeholders:

Seventy-nine percent of those who have been elected to government office do not know the Bill of Rights expressly prohibits establishing an official religion for the U.S.
Thirty percent do not know that “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” are the inalienable rights referred to in the Declaration of Independence.
Twenty-seven percent cannot name even one right or freedom guaranteed by the First Amendment.
Forty-three percent do not know what the Electoral College does. One in five thinks it either “trains those aspiring for higher political office” or “was established to supervise the first televised presidential debates.”
Fifty-four percent do not know the Constitution gives Congress the power to declare war. Thirty-nine percent think that power belongs to the president, and 10% think it belongs to the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Only 32% can properly define the free enterprise system, and only 41% can identify business profit as “revenue minus expenses.”

On some questions, Americans who have held elected office do better than Americans who have not. They are a little more likely, for example, to recognize the language of the Gettysburg Address (23% to 21%) and to know that the question of whether slavery should be allowed to expand into new territories was the main issue in the Lincoln–Douglas debates (25% to 20%).

Officeholders and non-officeholders find it equally difficult to identify the three branches of government. Only 49% of each group can name the legislative, executive, and judicial.

PICHARDO · Jul 22, 2011

Given that I was not educated in the US, nor have I held public office positions (LOL), I find that it's incredible the lack of knowledge most college students have of their own nation. Let alone the students in the public school system...

Incorrect Answers

Question: The Bill of Rights explicitly prohibits:
Your Answer: discrimination based on race, sex, or religion
Correct Answer: establishing an official religion for the United States

So much I fixated with the bill or rights on this one!!

Question: Free markets typically secure more economic prosperity than government’s centralized planning because:
Your Answer: markets rely upon coercion, whereas government relies upon voluntary compliance with the law
Correct Answer: the price system utilizes more local knowledge of means and ends

I still believe that market coercion is what we practice in the real market of today, where prices are more a matter of financial greed than competition. Given my background in the Oil biz, I can tell you that gas prices are not based 100% on the price of the barrel per day, than what greed can drive one dealer to charge above another a mere corner away...

Question: Name one right or freedom guaranteed by the first amendment.
Your Answer: Right to bear arms
Correct Answer: Religion

Too much NRA maybe? LOL!!!

Question: What was the source of the following phrase: “Government of the people, by the people, for the people”?
Your Answer: U.S. Constitution
Correct Answer: Gettysburg Address

Sorry! Not in the subjects my Instituto Evangelico de Santiago imparted when I was a student!

PICHARDO · Jul 22, 2011

Quarter of students fail exam for Army

MIAMI (AP) | Nearly one-fourth of the students who try to join the U.S. Army fail its entrance exam, painting a grim picture of an education system that produces graduates who can’t answer basic math, science and reading questions, according to a new study released Tuesday.

The report by the Education Trust bolsters a growing worry among military and education leaders that the pool of young people qualified for military service will grow too small.

“Too many of our high school students are not graduating ready to begin college or a career - and many are not eligible to serve in our armed forces,” Education Secretary Arne Duncan told the Associated Press. “I am deeply troubled by the national security burden created by America’s underperforming education system.”

Quarter of students fail exam for Army - Washington Times

CRISIS: AMERICAN STUDENTS FAIL BASIC CIVICS TEST THAT MOST IMMIGRANTS COULD PASS

According to a test administered by the Department of Education, most eighth graders do not know what the purpose of the Bill of Rights, nor do they understand what checks and balances. At the same time, high school seniors—who are about to enter into full citizenship as voters in this country—”were unable to demonstrate civic skills such as identifying the effect of U.S. foreign policy on other nations or naming a power granted to Congress by the Constitution,” according to a report.

Students fail to meet Maryland proficiency standards

etc...

U.S. students falling short in science

By Nick Anderson
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, January 26, 2011

About two-thirds of U.S. fourth-graders failed to show proficiency in science in 2009, the federal government reported Tuesday, meaning that the average student was likely to be stumped when asked to interpret a temperature graph or explain an example of heat transfer.

Seventy percent of eighth-graders and 79 percent of 12th-graders also fell short of science proficiency on the National Assessment of Educational Progress........

etc...

Criss Colon · Jul 22, 2011

"P"man,You Need To Get Laid!!!!

Maybe you can ddo THAT,because you sure can't stop "Cutting&Pasting" every article you find on "GOOGLE" that has statistics about the USA,and how ignorant "Americans" are.Do you know how foolish that makes you look? Obviously not.
Did you see that NASA flew the last Space Shuttle mission? Maybe the DR can take up the void in space exploration?
Several years ago Leonel asked the Dominican Academy of Science to come up with a "Space Mission" for the DR.,SOMETHING,that woud make the entire World know how smart Dominicans were!
After six months,millions of $$$ of loans from the "IMF" to pay for the project,the Academy,presented the "PLAN" to Leonel.
"We will send a Dominican Astronaut, to land safely on the surface of the Sun,and then return safely to the Dominican Republic!"
Leonel looked at the "Scientists" in disbeliefe!
"Are you all crazy?" he asked.
"The ship will not even get close to the Sun before the ship,and the astronaut,will be burned to ashes!"
(Leonel is smart,he went to highschool in "Nueba Yol!)

The scientist just smiled at each other.
"Don't worry Mr. President,we already thought about that,and have a solution".
"We are going to go at night!"

Leonel,nodded in agreement!
The project never "took off",Leonel had a "BETTER IDEA",---------the "METRO"!

I guess you are right after all! The DR schools turn out some real smart scientists!

PICHARDO · Jul 22, 2011

Criss Colon said:
Maybe you can ddo THAT,because you sure can't stop "Cutting&Pasting" every article you find on "GOOGLE" that has statistics about the USA,and how ignorant "Americans" are.Do you know how foolish that makes you look? Obviously not.
Did you see that NASA flew the last Space Shuttle mission? Maybe the DR can take up the void in space exploration?
Several years ago Leonel asked the Dominican Academy of Science to come up with a "Space Mission" for the DR.,SOMETHING,that woud make the entire World know how smart Dominicans were!
After six months,millions of $$$ of loans from the "IMF" to pay for the project,the Academy,presented the "PLAN" to Leonel.
"We will send a Dominican Astronaut, to land safely on the surface of the Sun,and then return safely to the Dominican Republic!"
Leonel looked at the "Scientists" in disbeliefe!
"Are you all crazy?" he asked.
"The ship will not even get close to the Sun before the ship,and the astronaut,will be burned to ashes!"
(Leonel is smart,he went to highschool in "Nueba Yol!)

The scientist just smiled at each other.
"Don't worry Mr. President,we already thought about that,and have a solution".
"We are going to go at night!"
Leonel,nodded in agreement!
The project never "took off",Leonel had a "BETTER IDEA",---------the "METRO"!

I guess you are right after all! The DR schools turn out some real smart scientists!

Too much sugar CCCCCCCCCCCCC's!!

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