SOC 248 Chapter Notes - Chapter Online news articles: Programme For International Student Assessment, Economic Indicator
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Soc 248- reading notes- online articles- american schools vs the world: expensive, Education at a glance 2012: oecd report finds us lags behind. American schools vs the world: expensive, unequal, bad at math: countries in higher education attainment rate, us trailing behind educational powerhouses. In 2000 us scored along oecd average in every subject: 2013 us scored below average in math, ranks 17th/34 oecd countries, 21st in science, 17th in reading. America is struggling at math: us math score not statistically different from norway, portugal, italy, spain, russia, Slovak republic, lithuania, sweden, hungary: only 9% of americans were top performers on pisa test. America spends a lot of money per student: us ranks 5th in spending per student, spends ,000, spending more on education isn"t predictive of better math scores on pisa. Countries that are doing well: biggest annual improvements from: brazil, tunisia, mexico, turkey, portugal, 2011 study found pisa scores are economic indicator: rising scores are good sign that.