(Note: these studies are a few years old but probably not far off the mark today)
Americans tend to think their child's school is good, but that public schools in general are poor. Compared to school systems in other nations, our schools score about average or below. Sounds like we in the U.S. may think our own schools are better than they really are.
Compared to 34 other OECD countries, our overall proficiency in math ranked #27. But . . we spend more than most of them on education.
“The big picture of U.S. performance on the 2012 Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) is straightforward and stark: It is a picture of educational stagnation…. Fifteen-year olds in the U.S. today are average in science and reading literacy, and below average in mathematics, compared to their counterparts in [other industrialized] countries.”
We are not getting a good return on our investment of education dollars.
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