U.S. Students' Scores Drop By 8th Grade
In 1995, the nation's 4th graders aced international mathematics and science tests. By the time they reached the 8th grade in 1999, though, they had become little better than C students on a global curve, a study released here last week concludes.
The scores from the 38-nation testing project reinforce what many education researchers have said for a long time: American schoolchildren fail to sustain the achievement advantages they gain in elementary school.
"Our curriculum includes a lot of repetition and fewer new subjects than in other countries," said Susan H. Fuhrman, the dean of the University of Pennsylvania's graduate school of education and a co-chairwoman of the panel of scholars that oversaw U.S. participation in the Third International...
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