Pancreatic Cancer Solution? Education A Must and We Continue to Fail.

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A woman, cranky because her husband was late coming home again, decided to leave a note, saying, "I've had enough and have left you ... don't bother coming after me!" 

Then she hid under the bed to see his reaction.   

After a short while, the husband comes home, and she could hear him in the kitchen before he comes into the bedroom. She could see him walk towards the dresser and pick up the note.   

After a few minutes he wrote something on it before picking up the phone and calling someone. 

"She's finally gone ... yeah, I know ... about bloody time!  I'm coming to see you, put on that sexy French nightie.   I love you ... can't wait to see you ... we'll do all the naughty things you like."   

He hung up, grabbed his keys, and left.   

She heard the car drive off as she came out from under the bed. 

Seething with rage and with tears in her eyes, she grabbed the note to see what he wrote:  "I can see your feet.  We're outta bread.  Be back in five minutes."

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Pancreatic cancer is one of the worst types.  Israeli scientists may have finally come up with an answer. https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-possible-breakthrough-molecule-destroys-pancreatic-cancer-cells-in-mice/
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ A solid education that includes rigorous courses teaches one to reason and is the best antidote to poverty in a technologically driven world. (See 1 below.)

In America, being middle class is defined/measured by the items one possesses, ie. TV sets, cars etc.  In Asia possessions are less a measure.  Emphasis on education is important.

Government intrusion in education, the negative impact of government policies on the family-structure and personal traits like independence and accepting responsibility, the decline in religious attendance as worshipers turn inward are threatening trends. Add to these debilitating trends funding by those who want to destroy our nation and it is little wonder our Republic is still standing.

We have flirted with socialism for decades. President Wilson was the first president, in recent times, to inoculate our Republic, then came  FDR, followed by Johnson. It is not surprising  this strain is resurfacing as radical emotionalism takes over the Democrat Party.

Will full fledged Socialism become the accepted economic platform or will creeping Socialism continue to gnaw away, more slowly,  at the roots of our Republic?  This remains the unanswered question.

One thing for sure, Socialism has failed wherever it has been indoctrinated/embraced because it is a flawed system and it's embrace can only be rejected through education.

One best educational antidote to Socialism would be to make the reading and discussion of "The Road To Serfdom" and "Atlas Shrugged" required reading for all lower grade students. Doing so would better inoculate college students from the ravages of Socialism tripe taught by liberal university professors.

Stay tuned.
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U.S. Students Fail to Make Gains Against International Peers

Asian students remain far ahead of Americans; performance gap widens domestically

By Tawnell D. Hobbs

U.S. teenagers made no significant gains on an exam taken by students around the world, and continue to trail students in Asian countries.

The exam, called the Program for International Student Assessment, or PISA, is considered a barometer of future economic competitiveness and is given every three years. It covers math, reading and science and targets 15-year-olds in private and public schools.

Results released Tuesday for 2018 show a widening gap between higher- and lower-performing students in the U.S. in reading and math. And despite average scores inching up in all subjects for American students, federal education officials said they weren’t measurably different from the last testing cycle in 2015.

“The scores are flat. We’re struggling in math in comparison to our peers around the world,” said Peggy G. Carr, the associate commissioner of assessments for the National Center for Education Statistics. “We’re sliding with regard to our most struggling readers.”

A representative sample of about 600,000 students in 79 countries and education systems took the two-hour PISA exam in 2018.

China, represented by four provinces, had the highest scores in all three subjects, with an average reading score at 555, math at 591 and science at 590, on a scale of zero to 1,000.

U.S. students had an average reading score of 505, a math score of 478 and a science score of 502. Socioeconomically advantaged students in the U.S. outperformed disadvantaged students in all subjects.

The U.S. ranking improved in all three subjects to eighth in reading, 30th in math and 11th in science, when compared with 63 other educational systems that reported data in 2015 and 2018. But Ms. Carr said the improved rankings are due to score changes with other education systems.

The PISA measures how well students apply knowledge to real-world tasks as they near the end of required schooling. The main focus of the assessment rotates between math, reading and science. In 2018, reading was the major domain, with half the assessment devoted to the subject. Math and science were minor domains, with one-quarter of the exam devoted to each.

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In the U.S., about 13.5% of students were good at distinguishing between fact and opinion on the reading exam, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a group of 37 mostly industrialized countries, including the U.S., that developed the PISA exam. That average for OECD countries is around 10%.

“In the world of, you know, fake news, it’s very important that students can actually navigate ambiguity and resolve conflicting dialogue,” said Andreas Schleicher, OECD director for education and skills.

Most countries have seen little improvement in scores over the past decade, despite increases in education spending, according to OECD.

The showing for the U.S. follows October’s flat results on a national exam for reading and math, known as the Nation’s Report Card. Scores on the exam, taken every two years by a sample of fourth- and eighth-graders, show that some of the lowest performers fell further behind, a similar pattern seen with the PISA.

Write to Tawnell D. Hobbs at Tawnell.Hobbs@wsj.com

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