December 07, 2004

Economic Time Bomb: US Teens are Among the Worst at Math

June Kronholz summarizes the OECD's Program for International Student Assessment, which finds that:

The percentage of top-achieving math students in the nation is about half that of other industrialized countries, and the gap between scores of whites and minority groups -- who will make up an increasing share of the labor force in coming decades -- is enormous.
Here's the report.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at December 7, 2004 03:50 AM | TrackBack
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