I simply want our schools to work on the same quality-assurance incentives that tend to successfully work just about everywhere else in the world's free markets. If that makes me a crazy right-winger I'd hate to see an enlightened left-winger.

Since you're on the subject of "rotating", I've got something you can rotate on pal.

States with stronger unionization of teachers have demonstrably better education systems. This idea that the teachers unions are causing problems is nonsense. There aren't any teacher's unions in Georgia, where Neal is from.

Actually, "Blue States" in general have better education systems. Government can do a good job at some things. Red state government (some of which are of course conservative democrats) can't.

If there's one thing that Obama's wrong about, it's that there is no red state / blue state divide. Red states are fairly consistently backwards and ignorant, and blue states are fairly consistently productive and progressive. Almost all the exceptions are political exceptions as well (i.e. Atlanta is productive and progressive in a Red state, but is itself Blue).

Additionally, a significant portion of the people who didn't know the relative chronology of humans and dinosaurs have to be willingly ignorant creationists (or whatever the Republicans consider politically correct to call these people), who are obviously more likely to be Republicans.

Actually, I think you'll find that the Earth ROTATES on its axis.

"Revolve" can also indicate rotation on an axis, OR it can mean orbiting a central body. So the Earth does, in fact, revolve around the sun.

Regardless of what you may say to the Pauxley River tracks, there is a preponderance of evidence from other sources: (1)Trilobytes found in the fossil of a human sandal print. The trilobytes (sp) were not doubted by the evolution scientists, but they content the "sandal" is merely patterns in the rock crystalization. They seem to have missed the fosilized laces at the edge, I suppose... This is WAY more damaging to the evolutionary timescale than supposed human/dinosaur interaction
(2) There is an abundace of human footprints found embedded in 250-million-year-old coal veins in Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri, and westward toward the Rocky Mountains.
(3) According to evolutionists, coal was formed during the Paleozoic age millions of years before the birth of man. However, near Glasgow, Scotland, under a mass of boulders, an iron instrument was discovered embedded in a coal seam seven feet under the surface.
citing of sources can be found at:
http://www.apologeticspress.org/articles/2609
Do not let the bible references that may be present hurt your brain too much, there is much cited scientific evidence at this website.

It should probably read "Only 41% of people know that man and dinosaurs lived at the same time." The other 59% are wrong.

This is really scary, but so is this.
Friday night 3/13 on Bill Marher's show, guess who also said the Teachers Union is dangerous ---- Bill Maher !!!
Who would ever think Neal and Bill would agree on anything.
Check it out if you don't believe it.

The Paluxy River "human-dinosaur" tracks are a hoax... and one so embarrassingly weak that even other creationists don't recommend citing it.

http://ncseweb.org/cej/2/4/paluxy-man-creationist-piltdown
http://www.asa3.org/ASA/PSCF/1988/PSCF9-88Hastings.html

Christians don't _have_ to be held hostage to ignorant pseudo-science. The evolution-deniers are fringe nuts, but their views have nothing to do with legitimate Christianity. Don't fall for their lies just because they claim to be doing God's work.

The exact answers if you were wondering:
1. 365.242199 mean solar days (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth's_Orbit)
2. Under debate and has to do with animal classifications. (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_fossil) AKA some dinosaurs still live today. If you asked a more specific question I think more people would have gotten that one correct.
3. I would have said 2/3. The more precise number is 70.8%; slightly more than 2/3. (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth)

And just because you don't know some inane fact doesn't mean you don't have the mental capacity to find the answer if you needed it.

Does everyone still believe that ALL kids need to go to College? Don't make me laugh! Most can't make it in college, thats what trade schools were for. Now most are too lazy for the skilled trades, thats what the MALL is for. So what if they believe Abraham rode a dinosaur? Like the old saying goes, "The world needs ditch diggers too" and did anyone ask these people if they CARED? Most I think could care less.If their drinking buddies thought for a minute they were intelligent they'd get the crap kicked out them! HA!

As a 27 year old education major who has gone BACK to college in order to teach I am not surprised. The system that our public schools fuction under is a disgrace. Where is the accountability? If I didn't preform in my job in the medical field I would be FIRED! Why are teachers who fail to educate students allowed to keep their jobs. I left out my last name becasue they would blacklist me from getting a job if I revealed my idenity. Who cares that I could properly educate students!

"Only 59% of adults know that the earliest humans and dinosaurs did not live at the same time."

Sounds like a godly person that knows that adam rode a pet dinosaur

Isn't it ironic that we're commenting on our government education system and we can't even spell and proofread correctly. I'm no fan of the school system, but come on Neal! You've got to do better than gang "bankers".

No doubt they, all three, failed this test. I had my dog take the exam and they faired better.

Yeah, I'd say they're among the most dangerous people in the nation right about now.



ololol let's continue to deride public education while failing miserably at basic spelling and grammar.

New mottos for teachers:
“If students don’t get it, push them through”
“Competition lowers self-esteem, feelings trumps knowledge”
“Keeping them stupid so unions can grow”
“Being in the top 10 of world education is overrated”
“Ensuring mediocre jobs are filled”
“Lower scores, more money”

About the questions, how long it takes for the Earth to revolve around the Sun? WHAT!!! The earth goes around the sun; this is a trick question, time for an inquisition because everyone knows the earth is the center of everything
Humans and dinosaurs did not live together? How do you explain the cartoon “The Flintstones”?
About the earth's surface that is covered with water question, of course they got this wrong because they are using Owl Gore’s prediction of 90% or something like that, thanks to global warming

Is that gang bankers.... or gang bangers?