The kids are alright
Every now and then, someone will write a jeremiad on how U.S. students are falling behind the rest of the world in science and math. Our distracted, disinterested dullards can't match the whiz kids that other nations are producing and in 10 or 20 or 50 years, the critics say, the U.S. economy will be crippled by our lack of brainpower.
There's one problem with this Chicken Little view: it just isn't true.
U.S. elementary and middle school students are solidly middle-class in math and rank near the top in science, according to the latest version of the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS).
The TIMSS uses standardized math and science tests to compare fourth- and eighth-grade students across the globe. The latest test results were released Tuesday.
Here are the numbers:
- In fourth-grade math, the U.S. ranked 12th of 25 tested countries. The average U.S. score of 518 was significantly higher than the international average of 495.
- Eighth-graders did even better in math. The U.S. was 15th among 45 tested nations and the U.S. average score of 504 was more than 50 points higher than the world average.
- U.S. students ranked sixth in the world in fourth-grade science and ninth in eighth-grade science.
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