A World-Class Education Eludes Many in the U.S.
"It's official," a suburban Chicago school district proclaimed last week. "Naperville Community Unit School District 203 is the best school district in the world."
About 30 miles away, in downtown Chicago, the news was sobering, however. Students from the city's 432,000-student school system ranked near the bottom on the same international study, which compared the math and science achievement of selected U.S. states, regions, and districts with the standings for 38 countries.
The study "provides evidence that some schools in the United States are among the best in the world, but that a world-class education is not available to all children," said Michael O. Martin, a co-director of the International Study Center at Boston College. The center conducted the study for the U.S. Department of Education and the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational...
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