As usual you merely attack and insult people while not dealing with the facts. Toronto is a diverse school system including a mix of racial groups. It does not have a high concentration of a single race such as white or black. However Toronto is over-represented by Asians as a demographic. Asians are a demographic group that outperform generally in education due to strong family support for education. As noted in the article, the achievement gap for blacks in the Toronto School System versus any other race is greater than nearly any school system in the U.S.; hence Toronto is failing badly in the education of blacks. Obviously this is an example of Canadian education failing a minority group far worse than school systems in the U.S. Maybe it is time that you woke up and fixed the problems in education in your own country before flinging nonsense on the strong results in other countries with diverse populations.
1. I was not attempting to compare anything to Canada. I don't know anything about your school system. If you a have a good one, I am happy. I like it when people live free and happy lives with education and religious freedom. 2. You completely ignorant of how jobs work in America. With respect to law jobs. Over half the people in law school are now women. And women get great jobs out of law school. In terms of getting into to law school... being a white male is not a positive. My wife is a nurse with and advance degree. She works as the equivalent of a 1st or 2nd year doctor. I have met all sorts of doctors. Doctors who are from schools all over. In the states you can go to medical in other countries and still get very high paying jobs here if you put in the time and want it enough. Many do. I have met them. You can even go to the OD / non real medical type schools and make 400 K a year and be called doctor. I would say the only significant discriminating I see being done in America for good jobs is being done by democrats and its frequently reverse discrimantion. in short you rally are blinded by leftist media if you think minorities don't have great access to very high paying jobs in our top fields here. In San Diego, I would say white male doctors born in American are highly underrepresented. But, I have never complained because it looks to me that if you work hard you can be a doctor.
The racial overtones of your recent opinions are insulting a lot of people on the planet yet you think we should play nice with you ? And your arrogant habit of thinking you know more about Toronto then I do based on office gossip and random online news articles is absurd. The US will continue to have severe social issues as long as people like you continue to make excuses for your countries policies and behavior and not fix the underlying issues.
Mean SAT Scores by Race/Ethnicity, 2015 Group- Critical Reading- Mathematics- Writing American Indian -481- 482- 460 Asian-American- 525- 598- 531 Black -431- 428- 418 Mexican-American- 448- 457- 438 Puerto Rican -456- 449- 442 Other Hispanic- 449- 457-439 White- 529- 534- 513
In regards to all of my posts about Canada I have provided links from the government and media to fully back my assertions. Whether the subject is healthcare, education, or any other topic any reader is free to go back and read my fully documented responses to your false assertions. You have regularly put out insulting and derogatory commentary about the U.S. while making assertions about Canadian superiority based on fabricated information. I have pointed out both the positive and negative about the Canada and the U.S. in all my fact-based commentary. I recognize that improvement can be made in both countries in regards to healthcare and education. Measurements of school performance is based on demographic groups. Pointing out the differences in racial performance does not make me a racist, it simply reinforces that I am pointing out the facts based on how student performance is measured. This may be a good time to point out -- once again -- that when directly comparing demographic group to demographic group the K-12 education performance in the U.S. is generally superior to that in Canada based on student achievement and test results. I have always advocated fixing the underlying issues. The question is what is the best way of addressing the problems. In regards to the education gap, many measures (more money, social promotion, teaching ebonics, common core, getting tough with parents, etc.) have been tried... most have failed. A couple measures that seem to be succeeding is non-profit charter schools in low-income areas and a focus on personal responsibility for students.
how americans ranked by race scored on these pisa tests in '12 Overall PISA rankings, including America by race Here are today's 2012 PISA average scores ranked by the mean across the three subjects. Americans' scores by race are broken out to make the comparisons less misleading. In summary, each race in America appears to average a little better than their racial cousins overseas. (By the way, in the following list, the italicized names refer to non-OECD places): Country or "Economy" Reading Science Math Mean OECD average 496 501 494 497 Shanghai-China 570 580 613 587 Singapore 542 551 573 556 Hong Kong-China 545 555 561 554 Asian Americans 550 546 549 548 Korea, Republic of 536 538 554 542 Japan 538 547 536 540 Chinese Taipei 523 523 560 535 Finland 524 545 519 529 Estonia 516 541 521 526 Liechtenstein 516 525 535 525 Massachusetts All Races 527 527 514 523 Macao-China 509 521 538 523 Canada 523 525 518 522 Poland 518 526 518 521 Netherlands 511 522 523 519 Switzerland 509 515 531 518 White Americans 519 528 506 518 Connecticut All Races 521 521 506 516 Vietnam 508 528 511 516 Ireland 523 522 501 516 Germany 508 524 514 515 Australia 512 521 504 512 Belgium 509 505 515 510 New Zealand 512 516 500 509 Multiracial Americans 517 511 492 507 United Kingdom 499 514 494 502 Austria 490 506 506 500 Czech Republic 493 508 499 500 France 505 499 495 500 Slovenia 481 514 501 499 Denmark 496 498 500 498 Norway 504 495 489 496 Latvia 489 502 491 494 United States 498 497 481 492 Luxembourg 488 491 490 490 Spain 488 496 484 490 Italy 490 494 485 490 Portugal 488 489 487 488 Hungary 488 494 477 487 Iceland 483 478 493 484 Lithuania 477 496 479 484 Croatia 485 491 471 482 Sweden 483 485 478 482 Florida All Races 492 485 467 481 Russian Federation 475 486 482 481 Israel 486 470 466 474 Slovak Republic 463 471 482 472 Greece 477 467 453 466 Hispanic Americans 478 462 455 465 Turkey 475 463 448 462 Serbia, Republic of 446 445 449 447 Cyprus 449 438 440 442 United Arab Emirates 442 448 434 441 Bulgaria 436 446 439 440 Romania 438 439 445 440 Thailand 441 444 427 437 Chile 441 445 423 436 African Americans 443 439 421 434 Costa Rica 441 429 407 426 Mexico 424 415 413 417 Kazakhstan 393 425 432 416 Montenegro, Republic of 422 410 410 414 Malaysia 398 420 421 413 Uruguay 411 416 409 412 Brazil 410 405 391 402 Jordan 399 409 386 398 Argentina 396 406 388 397 Tunisia 404 398 388 397 Albania 394 397 394 395 Colombia 403 399 376 393 Indonesia 396 382 375 384 Qatar 388 384 376 383 Peru 384 373 368 375
I will note that the PISA test is given every three years with the latest being 2015. It only represents a sampling of students from each country, not all the students. "The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is a triennial international survey which aims to evaluate education systems worldwide by testing the skills and knowledge of 15-year-old students. In 2015 over half a million students, representing 28 million 15-year-olds in 72 countries and economies, took the internationally agreed two-hour test. Students were assessed in science, mathematics, reading, collaborative problem solving and financial literacy. The results of the 2015 assessment were published on 6th December 2016." Here is the PISA website for more information: https://www.oecd.org/pisa/aboutpisa/
You're allowed to talk about blacks in this country, provided you're whining about how mistreated they are. But you're not allowed to discuss how blacks are not pulling their weight in educational test scores or in the give and take of gov't handouts. That would be racist. And of course the opposite is true when discussing whites. You can only criticize whites. This scam is going to ruin the country. If it's not already ruined.
I put him back on ignore; I suppose it really doesn't matter to me if he thinks he's a valuable source of info about Toronto. We benefited from some pretty strong public schools in North York, the same borough that he's harping about the poorer results. So yes, there is some variance, and it's exasperated by the results of the top schools. Streaming of "gifted" students also creates variance.