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If you get a chance, check out this new documentary.
"Two Million Minutes" (not the band, the movie)
https://www.2mminutes.com/
Highlights some differences between high school education in the USA and in China (and in India).
Seems to show that the "two million minutes" (the time you live in four years) spent in high school is greatly wasted in the USA on athletic competition, social competition, and "buying new bling" competition.
In other words, it's spent in "having fun".
Might help account for why U.S. students scored lower on science literacy than their peers in 16 of 29 developed countries in a December 2007 report.
https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2008/2008016.pdf
We scored 16th out of 29? Folks, if we don't stop our slide downward ...
Tom
"Two Million Minutes" (not the band, the movie)
https://www.2mminutes.com/
Highlights some differences between high school education in the USA and in China (and in India).
Seems to show that the "two million minutes" (the time you live in four years) spent in high school is greatly wasted in the USA on athletic competition, social competition, and "buying new bling" competition.
In other words, it's spent in "having fun".
Might help account for why U.S. students scored lower on science literacy than their peers in 16 of 29 developed countries in a December 2007 report.
https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2008/2008016.pdf
We scored 16th out of 29? Folks, if we don't stop our slide downward ...
Tom