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筷子的所有 Chopsticks for all « Deborah Meier on Education

Chopsticks for all « Deborah Meier on Education:


Chopsticks for all筷子的所有

From Mike Klonsky’s Small Talk log.It’s great. Spread it around.
Quotable Yong ZhaoPosted: 30 Aug 2012 03:39 PM PDT
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Chopsticks
To be globally competitive, we should all begin to use chopsticks because chopsticks produce better education outcomes as measured by the international gold standard of education the OECD’s PISA, which tests 15 year olds in math, reading, and sciences, and TIMSS, which assess 9-10 and 13-14 year olds math and science abilities. The top five performers in the 2009 PISA math (Shanghai, Taiwan, Singapore, South Korea, and Japan) all use chopsticks, so do the top five in TIMSS math in 2007 (Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, and Hong Kong), in 2003, and 1999. And PISA and TIMSS scores are what drive nations’ economic growth and back their global competitiveness. — Dr.Yong Zhao