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