[NMScience] U.S. Students Fall Short in Math and Science

[Jeffryes at aol.com]

U.S. Students Fall Short in Math  and Science

By _Sean  Cavanagh_ 
(http://www.edweek.org/ew/contributors/sean.cavanagh.html) 
EDUCATION  WEEK Published Online:  December 4, 2007 Vol. 27 
_http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2007/12/04/14pisa_web.h27.html?tmp=17101788
41_ 
(http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2007/12/04/14pisa_web.h27.html?tmp=1710178841) 
Teenagers in a majority of  industrialized nations taking part in a leading 
international exam showed  greater scientific understanding than students in 
the United States—and they far  surpassed their American peers in mathematics, 
in results that seem likely to  add to recent consternation over U.S. students’ 
core academic  skills.
 
_Read more  about 2006 Program for International Student  Assessment_ 
(http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2008016) , or PISA

_http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/pisa/pisa2006highlights.asp_ 
(http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/pisa/pisa2006highlights.asp) 
 
_http://www.ed.gov/news/pressreleases/2007/12/12042007.html_ 
(http://www.ed.gov/news/pressreleases/2007/12/12042007.html) 
_http://www.cato.org/view_ddispatch.php?viewdate=20071204#1_ 
(http://www.cato.org/view_ddispatch.php?viewdate=20071204#1) 
 
_http://www.cbc.ca/cp/Atlantic/071204/t120413A.html_ 
(http://www.cbc.ca/cp/Atlantic/071204/t120413A.html)  (Canada)






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Larry  Jeffryes
Los Alamos, NM
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