Sentences with phrase «behind international peers»

The just - released Program for International Student Assessment, or PISA, results show students in the United States continuing to fall behind their international peers, with scores declining in math, and stagnant in science and reading.

Finding that middle ground has never been more important, as U.S. students continue to fall far behind their international peers.

American students also lag behind their international peers in student achievement.

The country lagged behind its international peers, and its half - century effort to erode racial disparities in student achievement had made little headway.

The researchers were not expecting American students to fare well; previous international comparisons had already shown that American students were behind their international peers.

The country was lagging behind its international peers, and a half - century effort to erode racial disparities in school achievement had made little headway.

The Global Achievement Gap, a new book by Tony Wagner, co-director of the Change Leadership Group, examines the U.S. education system in the 21st century, considers why American students are falling behind their international peers, and proposes methods to begin to correct the downward slide.

But this top - down approach often leaves parents feeling pressured, educators struggling, and youth stressed and lagging behind their international peers.

Not exact matches

So when the results of international tests show Western schoolchildren lagging behind their peers in countries like Singapore and Japan, alarm bells start ringing.

U.S. students may be holding their own in math and science at the elementary level, but international comparisons indicate they are falling behind most of their global peers as they progress through the system.

Risk was more concerned with the fact that U.S. students had fallen behind their peers in nations like Japan, the Netherlands, and France on international exams in math and science (see Figure 4, page 44, in Paul E. Peterson, «Ticket to Nowhere «-RRB-.

For years, international comparative studies have shown that American students lag behind some of their global peers.

Three decades of student performance on international tests such as PISA and TIMSS has proven, our top - performing students have long been falling behind their peers around the world reading, math and science as their counterparts in other countries.

Maybe then we wouldn't be lagging behind our industrialized peers in international tests.

Citizens stuck in blue states like California now have no recourse to escape the failed test prep approach other than to get their children into private schools — and if they lack the resources to pay for tuition a second time (since they still must pay taxes for the second class teaching their local state schools are dispensing), their children will be doomed to fall behind the international competition, since that is a consequence of the second missed opportunity of the past decade, the Common Core standards that doom American children to fall 2 - 3 years behind their peers in Asia and northern Europe by the time they finish high school.