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December 11, 2004U.S. Students Fare Badly in International Survey of Math SkillsPARIS, Dec. 6 - High school students in Hong Kong, Finland and South Korea do best in mathematics among those in 40 surveyed countries while students in the United States finished in the bottom half, according to a new international comparison of mathematical skills shown by 15-year-olds. The United States was also cited as having the poorest outcomes per dollar spent on education. It ranked 28th of 40 countries in math and 18th in reading. U.S. Students Fare Badly in International Survey of Math Skills> Posted by at December 11, 2004 12:00 AMSubscribe to this site via RSS/Atom: Newsletter signup | Send us your ideas |