CNN.com:
American children aren't necessarily getting smarter or dumber,
but that might not be good enough to compete globally,
according to numbers cited by
Secretary
of Education Arne Duncan.He noted
a
special analysis put out by the
National Center for Education
Statistics that compares 15-year-old US students with
students from other countries in the
Organisation for Economic
Co-operation and Development. The report says that it found
US students placed below average in math and science, and that
16 of the 29 other participating OECD member countries
outperformed their US peers in terms of average scores.
