Wednesday, December 05, 2007
Newsflash: U.S. students' test scores rate below international average
According to a story in today's Wall Street Journal (subscription required to read entire article), U.S. students are "lagging behind their peers in other countries in science and math, test results show." I know that just shocks the fire out of you.
More:
"The test, the Program for International Student Assessment, was given to 15-year-olds in 30 industrialized countries last year. It focused on science but also included a math portion.
"The 30 countries, including the U.S., make up the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, which runs the test.
"The average scores for U.S. students were lower than the average scores for the group as a whole.
"U.S. students also had an average science score that was lower than the average score in 16 other OECD countries. In math, U.S. students did even worse -- posting an average score that was lower than the average in 23 of the other leading industrialized countries."
So long as America's public schools are controlled by unions who resist reform at every turn, and so long as educrats are more concerned with boosting kids' self-esteem and handing out condoms and birth control pills than ensuring that children actually learn something, U.S. students will be bested by their international peers on math and science tests for years - nay, decades - to come.
# posted by Joltin' Django @ Wednesday, December 05, 2007 
