Tom Liam Lynch :: New Literacies, New Literatures » UNESCO http://tomliamlynch.org On literacy and technology and education Sat, 04 Sep 2010 14:57:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Stat Can’t be Right http://tomliamlynch.org/2009/12/10/stat-cant-be-right/ http://tomliamlynch.org/2009/12/10/stat-cant-be-right/#comments Fri, 11 Dec 2009 02:50:20 +0000 tomliamlynch http://tomliamlynch.org/2009/12/10/stat-cant-be-right/
  • UNESCO’s Take on Information Literacy
    • ]]>     I came across this statistical overview of the US’s education system according to UNESCO.  Take a look:

    Notice anything strange?  Look again, here:

    I appeal to my teacher friends and colleagues here: Of the last ten distinct classrooms you’ve walked into (even counting your own), how often did you see fourteen students per single teacher?  I’m not sure where they got these number from, but someone needs to tell UNESCO, “Stat can’t be right!”

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