Math Skills Show Little Growth

American Voices • education • children • ISSUE 45•43 • Oct 21, 2009

Testing of American fourth- and eighth-graders shows that only four out of 10 are proficient in mathematics, a figure that has not improved since 2007. What do you think?

“Oh, no. All of our high-paying jobs differentiating between parallelograms and rhombuses are sure to go to the Chinese."”
Ann Gaddis –
Fan-Blade Aligner
“Well, duh. Everyone knows history is where it's at."”
Patrick Fanning –
Galvanizer
“Oh hell, when is the real world ever going to have any use for today’s American kids anyway?"”
Steve Weid –
Systems Analyst

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