George Rebane
America’s students are still struggling as they compete for leadership in the high tech job markets of today and tomorrow with other students arount the world. A correspondent from the east coast emailed me the following – “The 2015 Program for International Student Assessment tests 15-year old students around the world.. It's administered by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. The United States placed 24th out of 71 countries in science. It did worse in math, ranking 38th. The U.S. scored at 470 in math, below the OECD average of 490. That's well below the scores of the top five, all of which are Asian: Singapore at 565, Hong Kong at 548, Macao at 544, Taiwan at 542, and Japan at 532. China was not included, since only four provinces participated. In science, the United States scored at 496, above the OECD average of 493. The top five highest scoring countries were Singapore at 556, Japan at 538, Estonia at 534, Taiwan at 532, and Finland at 531.”
Fellow blogger and RR reader Russ Steele has a new blog – Rural Economy and Technology – that focuses on the introduction of technologies into rural economies. It’s worth reading, especially as it treats the slow introduction of broadband to communities like Nevada County. (more here)
Still on travel. Apologies for sparse postings and responses to comments.
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