Why is our math and science education so far behind eastern europe?
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2017 May 4, 6:40pm 15,759 views 84 comments
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marcus
2017 May 7, 11:23am
^^ I'd really like to see the conversation wherein a producer agreed to this idiocy.
I couldn't imagine a better parody of the insanity within today's regressive left.
The thing is 90% of the people cringe, including liberals. So it's self correcting. We're not going to follow Canada's bill c-16.
marcus
2017 May 7, 11:30am
I've always felt our culture works against us. Math & science are strongly associated with being a nerd
You have a point. But in public schools with enough academic diversity, that is with a high enough population of academically strong college bound students, many of the most respected cool kids are nerds. So you don't have that phenomenon.
But in low income and "inner city" areas, where too many kids are behind grade level, and long since not buying in to education as the best way out of poverty (parents not buying it either - in part because they are uneducated and think it's harder than it is (psychologically more complicated than that)), they don't have a critical mass of higher performing kids setting an example for the others.
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Spoke to a trader at a large derivatives firm today.
He told me they stopped hiring quants from American schools, since they consistently score lower on the initial aptitude tests and entry level training programs. Whereas the eastern european students come in better prepared and more willing to work.
The good news is we are hiring these people here... a bigger problem will occur if/when the jobs emigrate to eastern euro with the talent.