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Fathers' Manifesto

US scores 28th out of 41 nations on the "Third International Mathematics and Science Study".

Slovenians, with almost no money for education, managed to take enough time out from a full blown civil war to educate their children and to land them in 10th place, while the US, spending 3 times as much as almost everybody else as a percent of GDP, with no civil war, with the SAME racial composition as 3 decades ago when SAT scores were 77 points higher -- BUT with 4 times as many single mother households as then -- barely made it into 28th place. We scored only 7 points higher than Latvia which has been under Russian rule for half a century. We scored more than 100 points lower than the top three nations, whose teachers are primarily males and whose students attend single-sex classrooms.

Position	Country	Score

1	Singapore	643
2	Korea	607
3	Japan	605
4	Hong Kong	588
5	Belgium (Flemish)	565
6	Czech Republic	564
7	Slovak Republic	547
8	Switzerland	545
9	Netherlands	541
10	Slovenia	541
11	Bulgaria	540
12	Austria	539
13	France	538
14	Hungary	537
15	Russian Federation	535
16	Australia	530
17	Ireland	527
18	Canada	527
19	Belgium (French)	526
20	Thailand	522
21	Israel	522
22	Sweden	519
23	Germany	509
24	New Zealand	508
25	England	506
26	Norway	503
27	Denmark	502
28	United States	500
29	Scotland	498
30	Latvia	493
31	Spain	487
32	Iceland	487
33	Greece	484
34	Romania	482
35	Lithuania	477
36	Cyprus	474
37	Portugal	454
38	Iran	428
39	Kuwait	392
40	Colombia	385
41	South Africa	354

Modified Tuesday, November 17, 2009