The Catel
导演：
Bob Bowdon
剧情简介
2009美国电影《The Catel》由Bob Bowdon导演，Bob Bowdon主演，影片讲述的是：
American public schools have been growing progressively worse According to the US Department of Education national testing only 35 of American high school seniors are proficient in reading based on 2006 data And fewer than oneinfour 23 are proficient in math On the global stage America ranks last in educational effectiveness among large industrialized countries despite the highest spending per student in the world It presents a conundrum How has the richest and most innovative society on earth suddenly lost the ability to teach its children at a level that other modern countries consider basic If the problem is that were not spending enough on schools which many people believe its instructive to study the US state that spends more than any other per student New Jersey With spending as high as 483000 per classroom confirmed by NJ Education Department records for 200506 New Jersey students fare only slightly better than the national average in reading and math and rank 37th in average SAT scores And not even half of NJs high school freshmen despite the states enormous investment are academically ready for college four years later The fact is much of the public considers teacher salaries and overall education budgets to be the same thing if youre for raising one you must be for raising the other But as the film shows in many cases 8090 of the spending goes somewhere besides teacher salaries In fact billions of dollars as confirmed by independent audits are wasted The Cartel investigates what is causing this vast underachievement and what can be done to turn things around
American public schools have been growing progressively worse According to the US Department of Education national testing only 35 of American high school seniors are proficient in reading based on 2006 data And fewer than oneinfour 23 are proficient in math On the global stage America ranks last in educational effectiveness among large industrialized countries despite the highest spending per student in the world It presents a conundrum How has the richest and most innovative society on earth suddenly lost the ability to teach its children at a level that other modern countries consider basic If the problem is that were not spending enough on schools which many people believe its instructive to study the US state that spends more than any other per student New Jersey With spending as high as 483000 per classroom confirmed by NJ Education Department records for 200506 New Jersey students fare only slightly better than the national average in reading and math and rank 37th in average SAT scores And not even half of NJs high school freshmen despite the states enormous investment are academically ready for college four years later The fact is much of the public considers teacher salaries and overall education budgets to be the same thing if youre for raising one you must be for raising the other But as the film shows in many cases 8090 of the spending goes somewhere besides teacher salaries In fact billions of dollars as confirmed by independent audits are wasted The Cartel investigates what is causing this vast underachievement and what can be done to turn things around
