> The college level mathematics crisis is real, and it's only going to get worse.

Spanky can't even do per capita math... he's very smart.

Math is a contact sport.  There is zero substitution for the grind.  Teachers need to explain the payoff for that grind.

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Pearson Now Runs the GED: Passage Rate Drops by 90 Percent in One Year
Posted on January 5, 2015 by janresseger

In 2011, in collaboration with the American Council on Education, the mega-publisher Pearson took over the GED—the General Education Diploma—program through which a high school dropout can earn an equivalency certificate that counts as a diploma and that helps the person who earns a GED get a job or get into college.  The GED has been part of our education scene in the United States since 1942 during WWII; it was launched to help veterans who had left high school before graduation—when they were drafted or when they chose to volunteer for the military.

In January of 2014, Pearson instituted a revised GED exam—a new version of the GED that has to be taken entirely on-line.  At the end of the first year of the administration of Pearson’s new test, Daniel McGraw, a reporter for Cleveland’s alternative newspaper, The Scene, just published a blockbuster report on Pearson’s destruction of the GED and with it the path to a second chance for hundreds of thousands of adults across America each year.

Pearson’s partner in this venture, the American Council on Education (ACE) is an organization of college presidents, and it is presumably with ACE’s encouragement that Pearson emphasizes college readiness in the new test despite that many who seek to pass the GED aspire to job placement or technical education.  On its website, ACE describes the purpose of the new GED: “’This new, comprehensive GED program is a critical step forward in the American Council on Education’s efforts to expand the pipeline of learners who are prepared for college-level work,’ said ACE President Molly Corbett Broad… ‘It will better support and equip adult learners to compete in today’s economy and be qualified for good jobs that pay a living wage.’”

Pearson changed the way candidates take the exam as well as the content of the test.  Pearson’s new GED must be taken on-line, and it is based on the new Common Core standards, which emphasize analysis, higher-order thinking, and more advanced math.  While the  older test emphasized basic math and algebra, the new test includes questions like this sample provided by McGraw:  “Cilia are very thin, hair-lie projections from cells.  They are 2.0 x 10-4 (-4 is an exponent that can’t be shown in this blog’s font options.).  What is the maximum number of cilia that would fit side by side-without overlapping—across a microscope slide that is 25 millimeters wide?”  The test-taker has four multiple-choice options, all using negative exponents.  As an English major with a graduate degree, I confess I would have no idea how to approach this problem, though it did make me start thinking about the number of angels who might dance on the head of a pin.

In an examination of December 2014 data, McGraw details the dismal results of the launch of Pearson’s new GED test. “In the United States, according to the GED Testing Service, 401,388 people earned a GED in 2012, and about 540,000 in 2013.  This year… only about 55,000 have passed nationally.  That is a 90 percent drop off from last year.”  “In Ohio, 16,092 passed the test in 2012, and 19,976 did so in 2013, but only 1,458 have passed so far this year.”  “About 2,100 prisoners in the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections earned a GED in both 2012 and 2013.  Only 97 have earned the GED in 2014.  Project Learn, the local program contracted to tutor inmates in the Cuyahoga County Jail, saw a total of 80 inmates pass the GED test in the past three years, but only one county jail inmate has passed so far this year.”

Then there is the cost of even trying. “Most test takers will pay $120 for the new test, up from $40 previously.  A small sample test is offered online for free, but to get a larger sample of questions (about half the size of the actual test…) prospective testers pony up $6 per section.  So in theory, it could cost a student $168 to take two sample tests and the actual test one time.”   McGraw quotes C.T. Turner, GED’s spokesman, about the decision to eliminate the paper and pencil testing option: “to make sure those passing the test had the computer skills which reflected college and career readiness… We are measuring what a student who graduates from high school now has to be proficient in, and knowing how to use a computer is part of that.”  Never mind that candidates for the GED are more likely than the general population to be living in extreme poverty, to be homeless, to be incarcerated, to lack access to a computer or the internet.

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Math is a contact sport.  There is zero substitution for the grind.  Teachers need to explain the payoff for that grind.

I 169% agree.

Fuq "intuitive understanding" and "vibes" do all 50 listed problems.  Then do 50 more.  Maybe then you'll get it right.

could you share those? i could use some brushing up

Heekee wrote:

could you share those? i could use some brushing up

Diarrhetrius Brown wrote:

Imagine America in another 50 years.

It's turning into a blue piece of shyt.

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A handful of rat-faced whytes ripping the bloody hearts out of children to sacrifice to their savage desert God in some kind of reconstructed Babylonic talmudic hell-temple in Jerusalem while a planet of groaning, ooking flare-nosed mulattoes squats in the dust flogging their cawks and playing with their feces just like Daddy Jewbucks taught them. Probably not even capable of speech anymore, let alone reading and writing. Just a steaming-hot shytstink planet of the apes, grunting out brown human turds to serve the Schlomoids.

The world will be ruled from a high-tech neo-Babylonian ziggurat called the "Third Temple" in Jerusalem. Each morning the Arch-Schlomo will preside over a foul ritual where Aryan infants are pitched screaming into a pit of burning coals to sizzle before unspeakably hideous brass snakes and other cthonic idols. A group of 666 blonde nymphs bred for tantric sex will be on all fours, chains around necks rattling as they sigh in ecstasy, penetrated by midnight-black buck africans. This ritualized re-enactment of the destruction of the Aryan race will be accompanied by the gleeful, hand-rubbing cackling of the Arch-Schlomo and his retinue of high priests. A choir of pudgy Anglo-Saxon trevs will be forced to watch this grotesque tableaux of violation and masturbate sullenly. They are given female hormone injections to enhance their bitchtits and shrivel their dicks, much to the delight of the Chosen who look on and chortle at the downfall of the white man.

Outside the Third Temple, in the festering desert heat, a panoply of mulattoes of various mocha shades shuffle morosely through the blistering hellscape. They have lost the power of speech save for two words, and, heavily sedated from birth, can only mutter "nigguh...muhfuggin nigguh...Uhhh... Nigguh muhfugga." The are lashed with bullwhips by members of the Chosen who use them for slave labor and as the general butt of sadistic jokes and games.

You really need to seek medical help.

anon user #3 wrote:

The history books will be teaching that Donald Trump was the worst POTUS in history and that your generation was the greediest of all time.  Your great grandkids will think you were some kind of asshole.

There won't be 'history' if you assholes get your way.

This mess is the result of decades of lowering standards because your failed diversities cannot cut it.

You vermin are the problem. Your eradication is the solution.

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There won't be 'history' if you assholes get your way.

This mess is the result of decades of lowering standards because your failed diversities cannot cut it.

You vermin are the problem. Your eradication is the solution.

Step 1 for any peace or advancement is learning to get along with everyone, adolph.   Let go of the hate already.

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Most kids born in America today are black or brown.

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I bet if most kids in America were either white or Asian there would be no mathematics deficiency crisis in America.

Also, revamping the American education system is completely useless when most kids in school are either black or brown.  Giving a noglet or spiclet an education makes as such sense as giving a talking parrot an iPhone.

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A handful of rat-faced whytes ripping the bloody hearts out of children to sacrifice to their savage desert God in some kind of reconstructed Babylonic talmudic hell-temple in Jerusalem while a planet of groaning, ooking flare-nosed mulattoes squats in the dust flogging their cawks and playing with their feces just like Daddy Jewbucks taught them. Probably not even capable of speech anymore, let alone reading and writing. Just a steaming-hot shytstink planet of the apes, grunting out brown human turds to serve the Schlomoids.

The world will be ruled from a high-tech neo-Babylonian ziggurat called the "Third Temple" in Jerusalem. Each morning the Arch-Schlomo will preside over a foul ritual where Aryan infants are pitched screaming into a pit of burning coals to sizzle before unspeakably hideous brass snakes and other cthonic idols. A group of 666 blonde nymphs bred for tantric sex will be on all fours, chains around necks rattling as they sigh in ecstasy, penetrated by midnight-black buck africans. This ritualized re-enactment of the destruction of the Aryan race will be accompanied by the gleeful, hand-rubbing cackling of the Arch-Schlomo and his retinue of high priests. A choir of pudgy Anglo-Saxon trevs will be forced to watch this grotesque tableaux of violation and masturbate sullenly. They are given female hormone injections to enhance their bitchtits and shrivel their dicks, much to the delight of the Chosen who look on and chortle at the downfall of the white man.

Outside the Third Temple, in the festering desert heat, a panoply of mulattoes of various mocha shades shuffle morosely through the blistering hellscape. They have lost the power of speech save for two words, and, heavily sedated from birth, can only mutter "nigguh...muhfuggin nigguh...Uhhh... Nigguh muhfugga." The are lashed with bullwhips by members of the Chosen who use them for slave labor and as the general butt of sadistic jokes and games.