US school students don’t count in international class

And this is one reason why, in time, the US will fall just like every other empire.

In fact, the OECD says, US school students “rank 24th out of 29 OECD countries in mathematics performance.” It explained: “By the middle grades, the top achieving countries ... begin the transition to the study of algebra ... geometry and even in some cases, basic trigonometry. By the end of the eighth grade in these countries children have mostly completed US high school courses in algebra 1 and geometry. “By contrast, most US students are destined to mostly continue the study of arithmetic. In fact, we estimate that at the end of eighth grade (about age 14) US students are some two or more years behind their counterparts around the world.”

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