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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (16480)	5/10/2005 10:49:54 PM
From: Karen Lawrence	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 361389

After accounting for students' socioeconomic background, a new study shows public school children outperforming their private school peers on a federal math exam. giving those kids a leg up by making allowances for them doesn't change the outcome, which is: The US is failing in math. U.S. students scored below the international average in total math literacy and in every specific area tested, from geometry and algebra to statistics and computation. Known as the Program for International Student Assessment, the test measures math, reading and science literacy among 15-year-olds every three years. This time, the main focus was math. The test is not a measure of grade-level curriculum, but rather a cumulative gauge of skills learned inside and outside school - and how well students apply them to real-life problems. It also aims to give the United States an external reality check about how it is doing. Among 29 industrialized countries, the United States scored below 20 nations and above five in math. The U.S. performance was about the same as Poland, Hungary and Spain. Remedial reading, writing, and math classes are what college students have to study BEFORE they can start actual college. That wasn't the case some years ago. It doesn't have to be that way now. But the first step to better performance in school is to get rid of the existing system. level it and start over.