The Onion Finds a New Reason to Worry about US Students

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1. chemtchr says:

   February 11, 2013 at 11:28 pm

   Did you mean this Onion story?
   http://www.theonion.com/video/us-high-school-students-falling-behind-china-many,30903/

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   • Lehrer says:

     February 12, 2013 at 5:23 am

     Too funny. Too bad they did not go farther and have Michelle Rhee and Bill Gates blame the teachers and offer their solutions by way of more testing and teacher accountability. I guess it wouldn’t have been funny then.

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2. MAP says:

   February 12, 2013 at 11:31 am

   This is still my favorite Onion piece on standardized testing. Warning: Uses bad words and sailor talk:

   http://www.theonion.com/video/in-the-know-are-tests-biased-against-students-who,17966/

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   • retiredbutmissthekids says:

     February 13, 2013 at 2:17 am

     Yes!!! This is just the best!

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3. Brian Ford says:

   February 12, 2013 at 1:51 pm

   Perhaps the most relevant is
   POINT/COUNTERPOINT • Education • Opinion • Jul 17, 2012

   POINT: My Year Volunteering As A Teacher Helped Educate A New Generation Of Underprivileged Kids
   By Megan Richmond, Volunteer Teacher

   COUNTERPOINT: Can We Please, Just Once, Have A Real Teacher?
   By Brandon Mendez, James Miller Elementary School Student

   http://www.theonion.com/articles/my-year-volunteering-as-a-teacher-helped-educate-a,28803/

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4. Brian Ford says:

   February 12, 2013 at 1:53 pm

   dealing with a new fresh-faced college graduate who doesn’t know what he or she is doing year after year is growing just a little bit tiresome. Seriously, can we get an actual teacher in here sometime in the next decade, please? That would be terrific.

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