What’s the big deal? The solution is simple. Don’t participate in the test taking and US math scores won’t continue to drop. Or, we just have all our ghetto trash students in Democrat run shitholes identify as being excellent at math. Duh.
American students scored an all-time low in math on a major international exam, which provided the first comparison of global achievement since the pandemic radically changed education around the world.
According to data released Tuesday, American 15-year-olds had a 13 point plunge out of 1000 on the PISA (Program for International Student Assessment) exam, which was given last year to 620,000 students in 81 countries worldwide.
“These results are another piece of evidence showing the crisis in mathematics achievement,” said Peggy Carr, commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics, in a statement to WaPo. “Only now can we see that it is a global concern.”
“These results put U.S. achievement in an international context at a very important time in our history.”
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From an average of 478 out of 1,000 in 2018, the U.S. math scores tumbled to 465 in 2022, marking an 18-point drop since the first exam in 2003. Countries typically known for their strong performance in math, such as Iceland, Norway, Poland, and Slovenia, also experienced significant declines.
Relatively winning…
That said, while the US’s performance hit a new low in a vacuum, the relative ranking of the United States improved vs. other countries, even in math – where it’s now 6th among the 81 countries in reading vs. 8th in 2018, 10th in science vs. 11th, and 26th in math vs. 29th.
Notably, performance in reading and science remained stable.
The PISA exams, conducted every three years and delayed this time due to the pandemic, are a barometer of literacy among 15-year-olds in math, science, and reading. Coordinated by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), these tests gauge how well students apply what they’ve learned, both in and out of the classroom.
One notable aspect is that the U.S. students reported longer school closures during the pandemic compared to other OECD countries. Yet, Carr says that the link between school closures and performance is weak, suggesting deeper underlying issues in the education system.
The pandemic-influenced performance on PISA was not unlike that of the country’s foremost standardized tests, called NAEP, for National Assessment of Educational Progress. Carr noted that both showed a “very parallel, significant decline.”
According to Education Secretary Miguel Cardona, the rising relative ranking comes “at an extremely tough time in education,” but that “these results also show that we can’t be satisfied with the status quo in education.” He also called for higher-level math classes, teacher training, strategies to close learning gaps, STEM initiatives, and other efforts to address this critical issue.
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Curious to know what passes for “science” on the tests these days.
knowing how many genders there are. in the neighborhood of 70 isn’t it??
Gee, the test scores keep plummeting as the number of immigrant students keeps rising.
Correlation does not prove causation….
Right?
California Wants to Export its Mathematics Disaster to Your State
In California, the solution to students of particular socioeconomic categories falling behind in mathematics was to make sure that everyone had equal opportunity by denying useful and effective education to students who could excel…
It’s bad. REALLY bad. The actual policy being pushed, per the article, written by a math instructor from a family of mathematicians. The document reviewed literally proposes to – literally – stop some kids from learning to help others. The draft he read:
https://popularrationalism.substack.com/p/california-wants-to-export-its-mathematics
Democrat “schools” don’t educate, they indoctrinate.
Maff b hard
Bet yer ass!
“Yet, Carr says that the link between school closures and performance is weak, suggesting deeper underlying issues in the education system.”
No shit Sherlock.
Dumbing down every endeavor so the BiPOC crowd isn’t left behind or gawd forbid butt hurt is doing exciting things for this country like airplanes crashes increasing, medical malpractice increasing, literal idiots qualify for jobs as cops and firemen, schools putting out morons who can’t contribute anything to society and the endless list of similar consequences,
Meritocracy is out the window and we all enjoy the “exciting benefits” from such idiotic policies.
Yay!!!
Who needs math? We have government programs; there are quotas for hiring; special people can’t be fired. Work and talent equate to nothing more than being a sucker.
Public education and it’s so called “teachers” ( the most over compensated group of parasites in human history), has been in decline for decades and it deserves all the negative press it gets, but I don’t think parents get near enough blame. Most of the functionally illiterate “parents” I observe when I’m out in public, don’t look anywhere near being able to take care of themselves , let alone raising children. They are just taking advantage of taxpayer subsidized babysitting and most of this “homeschooling ” going on is a crock of shit too. A significant portion of elementary school age children are basically turning into diabetic, feral animals, that can’t keep still, yell instead of talk, have ZERO concept of the natural world and constantly engorge themselves (along with their parents) with high fructose corn syrup and salt.
I’m glad I’m old and won’t be around to see the end result of this.
50 years from now driving over a bridge designed by engineers with our current level of math skills will no longer be a risk-free endeavor.
American culture, traditions, and institutions have been knowingly and systematically poisoned for the last fifty years. While I strongly believe that all adults should be equal before the law, it is a simple and observable fact that Africans do not on average have the same level of intellect and self control as Whites and Asians. The integration of Africans into public school systems quickly highlighted that inequality. The solution? If Africans cannot rise to the same educational standards as traditional White schools, the only politically acceptable response was to lower the standards for ALL students until enough Blacks could pass. Why do so many students leave school unable to read, write or do even simple math? Because the standards for all students have been brought down to that of an 85 IQ child.
When The Baltimore City School system was majority white late 50’s and early 70’s it was considered one of the top systems in the country !
Now from Administration to teaching and students are majority black and the system spends more per student than any school system of similar size .
Still with all that money the system awards diplomas to students with a 1.6 GPA prepared for absolute failure in life
One thing is certain all these black future failures of America have a very high opinion of themselves and are having college and job opportunities shoved down their throats and up their asses !
Like Harvard only 1 out of 16 black students ever graduate the rest drop out and usually have a college debt they can never pay off
It’s not racism to bring this up it’s left true racism setting these young people up to fail at great expense
Moron. Harvard will graduate almost all the blacks that start.
Harvard Diploma<Hamburger U Diploma
Common Core’s really kicking in…I remember going to a parent-teacher conference for my daughter when she was a freshman, and I bitched to the teacher that I had trouble with her homework they way they wanted it done. I could rattle off basic math easily, and some problems, you just know the answer to, but may have a hard time explaining your work.
Basic math shouldn’t require a convoluted solution to simple problems.
The teacher just shrugged her shoulders, and couldn’t say anything. She obviously never heard of the “kiss” theory.