Awesome tweets about the Gasols playing for Spain

[boozehound]

It's not more true than we'd like to admit. This is a massive country, much bigger than the U.K., so there's going to be more idiots. Twitter serves as an outlet for these dolts. To make any generalizations on Americans based on the twitter comments of people is very stupid. This country has many intelligent, culturally aware people, even if some of you wouldn't like to admit it.

http://mat.usc.edu/u-s-education-ver...d-infographic/
http://www.good.is/post/american-stu...is-number-one/
http://www.all4ed.org/files/IntlComp_FactSheet.pdf

Reading Literacy
In 2003, the United States ranked 15th of 29 OECD countries in reading literacy, and with a score of 495, came in near the OECD average of 500 (U.S. Department of Education. National Center for Education Statistics 2004). However, a printing error invalidated the U.S. reading section of the 2006 PISA assessment, so the current U.S. standing is unknown.
Scientific Literacy
The United States ranks 21st of 30 OECD countries in scientific literacy, and the U.S. score of 489 fell below the OECD average of 500 (OECD 2007b). One quarter (24.4 percent) of U.S. fifteen-year-olds do not reach the baseline level of science achievement. This is the level at which students begin to demonstrate the science competencies that will enable them to use science and technology in life situations (OECD 2007b).

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Mathematics Literacy
The United States ranks 25th of 30 OECD countries in mathematics literacy, and the average score of 474 fell well below the OECD average of 498. Scores have not measurably changed since 2003, when the United States ranked 24th of 29 countries (OECD 2007b). Over one quarter (28.1 percent) of American fifteen-year-olds performed below the baseline level of mathematics proficiency at which students begin to demonstrate the kind of skills that enable them to use mathematics actively in daily life (OECD 2007b).
Problem Solving
In 2003, the U.S. ranked 24th of 29 OECD countries in problem solving, and the average score of 477 fell well below the OECD average of 500 (OECD 2004). Half of American students fell below the threshold of problem-solving skills considered necessary to meet emerging workforce demands (OECD 2004). National surveys corroborate this finding; for example, 46 percent of American manufacturers say that their employees have inadequate problem-solving skills (NAM 2005).

Equity in Achievement The United States has an average number of students who perform at the highest proficiency levels, but a much larger proportion who perform at the lowest levels. The United States is the only member country to have relatively high proportions of both top and bottom performers (OECD 2007b).

So, those are the facts. Getting your panties in a twist about it doesnt help improve the outlook of US education.

[boozehound]

Before we toss people from any country under the bus remember not everybody is a sports fan. We know who Gasol plays for and why because we follow the NBA.

Some of these people only follow sports every 4 years when it's force fed to them, notice this didn't become a topic until yesterday when for the first time this Olympics basketball was aired live on a non subscription channel.

I could see a casual sports fan hearing about Gasol here and there over the years and then being confused. Not everyone soaks up sports like we do.

well, they obviously know who he is since they are referencing him playing for an american team. Thats the point, they are such superficial observers of their activities/entertainment that they have no real frame of reference/understanding.

[Burgz V2]

reading some of these tweets there are some really stupid people on the internet who should not be using their real names for the sheer shame their comments have brought them

/runonsentence

[BaņkShot]

Scroll down a bit for the tweets
http://www.sport.es/es/noticias/jueg...espana-2184067