Despite a national push to improve student performance, American teens remain average in science and reading proficiency and below average in math compared with the rest of the world.
This, according to new results released by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development which has tested 15 year olds in 65 nations since 2000. Students in Shanghai scored highest; Singapore, Japan and Hong Kong followed. US students fell in the middle, with Peru, Indonesia and Qatar coming in last.
While dozens of countries have improved over the past decade, the US hasn’t. US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan called the results a “picture of education stagnation”
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Source: A Nation of C Students, by Maya Rhodan, in TIME, December 16, 2013.
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