U.S. schoolkids trailing others
Lewis DiuguidIt’s not surprising that U.S. schoolchildren aren’t leading other the nation in academic performance.
This country’s kids have gotten comfortable in not being on top despite the 10-year-old push from the No Child Left Behind law to improve U.S. schoolchildren’s performance. Bloomberg News reports that America’s students have let kids in Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong and South Korea outdo them in math, reading and science.
The knowledge gap is measured by the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study and the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study. They measure the skills, knowledge and mastery of the curriculum by elementary and middle school students.
So much for U.S. exceptionalism.
George Hunsucker
Northland
5 months, 2 weeks agoWe are being led into poor performance by your beloved teachers’ unions lewis…
Why does black America let government schools consign their kids to a crappy life lewis?????
Why doesn’t black America, yourself included lewis, demand they be given vouchers so their children will at least have the chance of success????
Instead we spend thousands of dollars per student and get lower results…. What a lib payoff lewis!!