American students are outperformed on the worldwide stage so this survey information shouldn’t be a surprise.
The findings, out today from the Center for American Progress, a Washington think tank that champions “progressive ideas,” analyze three years of questionnaires from the Department of Education’s National Assessment of Educational Progress, a national test given each year.
Among the findings:
•37% of fourth-graders say their math work is “often” or “always” too easy;
•57% of eighth-graders say their history work is “often” or “always” too easy;
•39% of 12th-graders say they rarely write about what they read in class.
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2012 At 10:14 am, Skyler the Weird Said:
What are the criteria for the students in the study though? We have compulsory education that is almost cradle til adult school. Everyone in the US is put on a college tract as hardly any schools offer vocational training.
Are we being compared to kids in China and India who are selected to go to school their peers being forced into farm labor or votech courses? Or European Countries where only kids who are college bound are tested?