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Education Standards
Only a few countries are teaching children how to think
A traditional company in Oaklahoma, USA, has been making pies and biscuits since the 1920s. But they are having a lot of problems to find candidates with the skills to fill even the most basic factory jobs. Such posts require workers to think critically, but graduates of local schools are often unable to read or do simple maths. That’s why they recently decided to open a new factory in Poland — its first in Europe. “We hear that there are a lot of educated people in Poland”, explains Paula Marshal, the company’s boss.
Poland’s made some dramatic gains in education in the past decade, and now international rankings put the country’s students well ahead of America’s in science and maths. What’s Poland doing right? And what’s America doing wrong?
In the sentence “A traditional company in Oaklahoma, USA, has been making pies and biscuits since the 1920s.” (R.1-2), “has been making” expresses