The latest U.S. results on an international math, science and reading test are ‘sobering,’ experts said, and show the average U.S. student continues to lose ground against those around the globe. Overall, the U.S. finished 17th in reading, 21st in science and 26th in math. That’s largely because U.S. scores were flat while other countries […]
Tomorrow marks the latest round of international education testing results, this time for the Program for International Student Assessment, or PISA. PISA is a test given every three years to a sample of about 500,000 15-year-old students in 60 countries. Those students represents about 90 percent of the world’s economy, according to the Organization for […]
Florida is one of 36 states which scored higher than the international average score on a math test and one of 47 states which beat the international average score in science, according to a new analysis from the National Center for Education Statistics. But no U.S. state beat the top-performing countries in math or science, […]
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