Despite being on average more economically advantaged, American students consistently score lower on standardized tests than students in other developed countries. Many mistakenly attribute this finding to the idea that children living in poverty or other distressed environments drag the average score down but that middle or upper class students are some of the best in the world. A new report from the group America Achieves finds that even among the more affluent families, American students are very much in the middle of the pack in terms of educational proficiency.
The report compares scores on standardized tests only among students whose families are in middle to upper classes economically. Among 40 other nations, students in the U.S. ranked 32nd in mathematics, 21st in science, and 17th in reading. Students in Shanghai-China were at the top of all three subjects. In fact, even the most disadvantaged students in Shanghai outperform American students who are in the middle to upper class.
The study is available here. One bit of good news is that the report did find some individual schools in the U.S. had average scores that rivaled the average scores in some of the top performing countries.
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