Against Other Nations, U.S. Below Par in Science

American teenagers scored lower in science than students in a majority of other industrialized countries participating in a prominent international exam, in results that testing officials said they released early after the scores unexpectedly slipped out abroad.

Fifteen-year-old U.S. students ranked lower Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader , on average, than their peers in 16 other countries, including those in Finland, Canada, Japan, the Czech Republic, and Ireland, out of 30 total industrialized nations, on the 2006 Program for International...

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