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Wednesday, December 27th, 2023

Math Scores Dropped Globally, but the U.S. Still Trails Other Countries

Author:     Sarah Mervosh
Source:     The New York Times
Publication Date:     Dec. 5, 2023
 Link: Math Scores Dropped Globally, but the U.S. Still Trails Other Countries
Stephan:  

The United States is one of the least literate developed nations in the world, Americans are also the least capable of doing basic math. This is the latest factual data and it has significant implications for our future. This poor showing is mostly the result of deliberate cultural choices in the public schools in Red states

In math, the U.S. ranked 28th out of 37 participating countries from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a group that includes mostly industrialized democracies. Credit: Jim Wilson/The New York Times

The math performance of U.S. teenagers has sharply declined since 2018, with scores lower than 20 years ago, and with American students continuing to trail global competitors, according to the results of a key international exam released on Tuesday.

In the first comparable global results since the coronavirus pandemic, 15-year-olds in the United States scored below students in similar industrialized democracies like the United Kingdom, Australia and Germany, and well behind students in the highest-performing countries such as Singapore, South Korea and Estonia — continuing an underperformance in math that predated the pandemic.

The bleak math results were offset by a stronger performance in reading and science, where the United States scored above average internationally.

About 66 percent of U.S. students performed at least at a basic level in math, compared with about 80 percent in reading and science, according to the exam, the Program for International Student […]

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