Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Wall Street Journal: American Teens Trail Global Peers in Math Scores

American teenagers made modest progress on an international exam, but still performed below average in mathematics compared with their peers in other industrialized countries, according to results released Tuesday by the U.S. Department of Education.
The test, called the Program for International Student Assessment, has been given every three years since 2000 to 15-year-old students. Last year, when the test was administered, 60 countries participated. It's coordinated worldwide by the Paris-based Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development...

The Wall Street Journal link to the actual test scores is here.

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