Where have the jobs gone? Apparently we'll never know

[penniless 0]

because we're bringing up a generation of geographically illiterate young adults.

news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/05/0502_060502_geography.html

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Take Iraq, for example. Despite nearly constant news coverage since the war there began in 2003, 63 percent of Americans aged 18 to 24 failed to correctly locate the country on a map of the Middle East. Seventy percent could not find Iran or Israel.

Oh I would bet there will be plenty of kids in the not too distant future that will figure out where Iraq and Iran and Syria are on the map.

[jimmytavino 16]

geography is NOT the only thing that the younger generation does not know..

we are hurting in math Science,,, hell,,, even grammar has been left by the wayside...
But ask 'em about the newest X-box game or what Lindsey Lohan is doing , and
they are all just about 100 % on top of THAT!!!... go figure.
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jmy

[SkyDekker 1,465]

That study is most certainly flawed.

I know people, who know people who went through the US education system and they have told me it is the best damn education system around.

[jimmytavino 16]

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That study is most certainly flawed.

I know people, who know people who went through the US education system and they have told me it is the best damn education system around.

It used to be.... and maybe in some places ,, it still is.. but what a student is taught and what they learn can certainly vary...
It's a matter of applying oneself and absorbing the information... I do NOT blame the system OR the teachers... I find that the fault lies with the students. In this day and age their priorities are faaaar different than was the case 20 or 30 years ago...And if a child can't see the importance of their various subjects, then they simply "tune it out"......When we were young we had puzzles of the 50 states, where we would learn the Shapes of the states AND their locations,,,, AND it was fun.. TIme have certainly changed...

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That study is most certainly flawed.

I know people, who know people who went through the US education system and they have told me it is the best damn education system around.

I expect they are the same people that tell you the US has the world's best healthcare system.

[SkyDekker 1,465]

Everything is better in the US of A...well bigger anyways

[champu 1]

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geography is NOT the only thing that the younger generation does not know..

we are hurting in math Science,,, hell,,, even grammar has been left by the wayside...
But ask 'em about the newest X-box game or what Lindsey Lohan is doing , and
they are all just about 100 % on top of THAT!!!... go figure.
PS Nice Avatar Amazon....
jmy

As an American between the ages of 18 and 24, I'd just like to say I have no idea who Lindsey Lohan is (I looked her up just now and I still don't recognize her.)

I also missed the CSI question that was in the survey, leaving me with 19/20. I was disappointed about that.

[kelpdiver 2]

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That study is most certainly flawed.

I know people, who know people who went through the US education system and they have told me it is the best damn education system around.

I expect they are the same people that tell you the US has the world's best healthcare system.

Even I laughed at that one.

While I'm not crazy about the trend too far in the direction of 'learning actualization' versus learning facts, I see many of these surveys with clear agendas as a bit too driven by the esoteric and/or irrelevent. Like the one that concluded Americans didn't know their rights because thought of the First as freedom of speech and religion but couldn't name every subline in the text.

In high school I remember getting bumped out of an academic competition for not knowing the capital of Michigan. Too bad for me in the competition, but it's a stretch to think that this lack of knowledge hurts me in any way. These days, I think it's far more important people have the tools to understand the claims about topics like global warming than the location of Louisianna and Sudan.

[akarunway 1]

"It used to be.... and maybe in some places ,, it still is.. but what a student is taught and what they learn can certainly vary...
It's a matter of applying oneself and absorbing the information... I do NOT blame the system OR the teachers... I find that the fault lies with the students. In this day and age their priorities are faaaar different than was the case 20 or 30 years ago...And if a child can't see the importance of their various subjects, then they simply "tune it out"......When we were young we had puzzles of the 50 states, where we would learn the Shapes of the states AND their locations,,,, AND it was fun.. TIme have certainly changed..." ___________________________________________We used to play marathon Risk. Do they even sell that game anymore?

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