idk good luck!

I don’t think this reflects on the American Education system at all. There are TONS of things we learn in school, and if asked, years later, we are very likely to have forgotten, depending on whether we have used that information again. For example, you begin your question:
“The results of a National Geographic Education Foundation survey of US adults between the ages of 18 and 24 were recently reported in Education Week (May 10, 2006;).”
Now, English is most likely your native language, yet I could point out that your first sentence is written in passive voice and would be better rewritten in active voice. Who cares? No one. Who else would notice? Probably no one. However, I am an English teacher, so I notice these relatively unimportant things.
If you ask a geography teacher to identify points on a map and he/she couldn’t, I’d say something was wrong. There are also many more professions that require that people know points on a map, and those people would be able to.
Any day of the week, we could quiz John Q. Public on any subject and get relatively disappointing statistics. Why don’t Americans know where other countries are located? It is not because they haven’t been educated; it’s because they don’t care enough to remember.

Why don’t you step up and go to a real school? Are you too weak? Are you such a fragile flower? What’s the deal?

no more use of finance.end of greed.

hello. you have problem to solve problem right? you say that you can solve a problem that you have seen the solution before. well, you have used your brain and you can remember the problem plus the solutio. the only thing you need is meke a mapping in your bran. understand the core of problem. the you remember what you know about the topic of problem. find the other relatinon topic if any. so you can solve the problem.
you know, you have power to remember. you just need to use your memory. just try and keep learn. there is no instans thing in this world.
good luck. and don’t give up buddy.

As long as religion did not attempt to control the lives of the secular state and interfere in the rule of goverment, I’d let them indulge in their beliefs.

This also presumes they follow all the laws of the state. If a religion declares itself “above the law, and answerable only to God”, I”m calling the SWAT team.

If you looking for arguments against this policy here are a few Ideas:
1) The most skilled applicants may not necessarily be the most needy applicants. You can turn this into a human rights issue. Point out there are millions in need in the world, and admitting only well-to-do, skilled immigrants can be seen as a social injustice.

2) You can argue that a developed nation like Canada should seek to offer amnesty to those in need, rather than bringing in people in to ‘enhance’ their already flourishing economy. While these skills may help Canada, they may hurt these immigrants home countries resulting in massive loss of skills (due to greater prospects in canada) and harm the economies of poorer nations.

Consider that the U.S., like Italy and other such countries, has a very high rate of immigrants, whereas the best schools–reportedly in Finland–have the lowest rate of immigrants. If a child moves from Mexico tomorrow and attends a school in the U.S. today where a standardized test is being given, that child has to take the test, regardless of the fact that she knows no English.

Educators get ill with people who say that American students aren’t getting a good education when these factors and others, like parents not making their children attend on a regular basis and businesses and government with their own personal agendas, interfere with students being taught. On top of that, geography was taken out as a mandatory subject. Go figure!

If I could change the world, I’d want to take away all the things that make government leaders lust for power and greed. If nobody had anything special, we would only fight for the right reasons.
I mean I would give every government the technology to exist and thrive without money or oil.

Good luck

I would get rid of the us versus them mentality.
Christians versus non- christians
republicans verses democrats
pick an ethenic group versus pick an ethnic group.

It would make for a much better world