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Richardson Flunks Two Subjects
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| Contributor | Servo |
| Last Edited | Servo Sep 13, 2007 09:47am |
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| News Date | Wednesday, September 12, 2007 03:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Democratic presidential candidate Bill Richardson, governor of New Mexico, has claimed again and again U.S. students, from kindergarten through 12th grade, are ranked 29th in the world in math and science. He claims they used to be No. 1, too. But none of that is true.
The two leading international assessments of student achievement rank U.S. students better in all cases, and in most cases much better, than Richardson claims. Furthermore, neither of them even tries to cover all grades K through 12. We've asked the Richardson campaign several times in recent days to provide a citation, but so far they've produced nothing that supports a 29th-place ranking.
Richardson's "No. 1" claim must refer to some mythical past unknown to educational experts and historians. We've found no authoritative study that has ever ranked U.S. grade-school and high-school students first in math and science.
In fact, the studies all show the U.S. could do much better, particularly at the high-school level where scores are actually below the international average. Our criticism is that Richardson is using a fanciful number that paints too dark a picture. |
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