India and China are among the
fastest growing economies in the world, but were they differ is education. China ranked number one on the Program for
International Assessment or PISA. PISA is an international test that tests
fifteen year olds in participating economies on critical thinking in math,
science, and reading. India ranked second
to the lowest out of seventy four other countries. Michael Schuman of the New York Times
suggests that maybe India performed so low because the country started ten
years after China. Economist Tyler Cowen
seems to think that malnutrition could have caused India’s low IQ.
An editor at the Indian newspaper, Mint, says “that current state of affairs will lead to a future where we will have let down millions of young Indians, who will be shut out the job market because they were failed by the state.” (Paragraph 4)
An editor at the Indian newspaper, Mint, says “that current state of affairs will lead to a future where we will have let down millions of young Indians, who will be shut out the job market because they were failed by the state.” (Paragraph 4)
I would have to agree and disagree with
the editor at Mint, considering that
most companies would like their employers to think critical it is crucial that
young Indians get the proper education to compete in the job market. I disagree with the editor because India is
trying to better their education system unlike the United States who was once
the leaders of the PISA and now pay a lot of money on education and yet score
average on the test. I also think that
the fact that India does not consider females also brings their score down as
stated in the article. Why aren’t females in India being educated? Could the scores of PISA been raised if
females were to take the test? These are
questions that go unanswered because females are thought of as weak and
inferior to men, so parents of girls do not find a reason to send their girls
to school. One way I would suggest that
India could help improve their scores is to get their teachers educated and
also to include women in education. http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700216582/China-1st-India-last-in-global-education-rankings.html
Tia Morrison
January 19, 2012
9:34 P.M.
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