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slackerchewson SFUSD's delay of algebra 1 has created a nightmare of workarounds

I didn't lie... Page 16 of my OECD link shows that the average was 505 for 2018...

EDIT:: Nevermind I'm a dumbass. that graph is for reading and literacy.... guess I know how I'd score...

slackerchewson SFUSD's delay of algebra 1 has created a nightmare of workarounds

Yeah I just looked at the two sources. Somethings up will add a disclaimer in my comment

slackerchewson SFUSD's delay of algebra 1 has created a nightmare of workarounds

I agree (and point out in my comment) that this is not a 1:1 comparison.

slackerchewson SFUSD's delay of algebra 1 has created a nightmare of workarounds

totally agree with you. was just pointing out a statistical quirk I thought added value to the discussion.

I'll even retract my point that the US maths education system isn't failing as a whole. When two demographics (30% of the country and growing) are being left behind by the system, then the system is failing as a whole. I really hope to see this change in the future.

slackerchewson SFUSD's delay of algebra 1 has created a nightmare of workarounds

**DISCLAIMER: The numbers don't add up, someone's numbers are wrong see Jesson's child comment

>US is below the mean for average mathematical performance and this isn't helping.

This depends on whether or not you control for race [0]:

- Asian (556)

- White (531)

- Hispanic (481)

- Black (448)

- Mixed Race (501)

Despite the euroworship in this thread, White-American and Asian-American students outperform Europeans and Asians, respectively (although I don't have data that breaks down those countries' scores by race, so take this with a grain of salt). Quite interesting how people in this thread (whom I suspect are mostly white- and Asian- American males given the hours/site) are talking about how bad the US education system is and how their European friends were all learning Riemann sums in kindergarten.

The system is only failing black and hispanic students. Really tough problem to solve, but the data does not support the conclusion that the American maths education system is "behind" or "failing" as a whole. I would also like to see the scores stratified by income, which my linked paper did not provide.

[0]: https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/pisa/pisa2018/pdf/PISA2018_compi...

slackerchewson For the first time, the Fed is losing money

hey, i dont know much about central banking/economics, but i feel like i know enough to know that I know nothing. it seems that this topic produces the lowest-quality, highest-confidence responses of any on this board.

You and a few others seem to be the only posters with an proper understanding of the topic. But I could be wrong - you may be as dumb as me.

Could you point me in the direction of some resources that can help me be literate in this topic? I have already read the BoE paper that gets passed around here.