US pupils have mixed performance in global test
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US eighth-graders are gaining on their peers across the globe in science and math, but fourth-graders are being passed as their test scores remain stagnant, according to an international review of school performance.
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Pupils have made improvements in maths but there has been little progress in writing, official figures show.
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Finland, where there are no wholly-private schools, beat the top-ranking schools in Hong-Kong, Japan and Korea in maths and science - but the UK was left out of the study after the government failed to deliver the statistics.
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Arizona students showed a slight improvement in the Stanford 9 Achievement Test, scoring 11 points above the national average for math and reaching or topping national averages in language and reading, according to results released Monday.
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&#39;It&#39;s really the only way we have to determine how the United States as a nation is doing in preparing its children and its students in math and science.
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TOKYO - The reading and mathematical skills of Japanese high school students have markedly declined in the past three years, according to an international student assessment test conducted by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
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Pupils in Wales have a GCSE pass rate of almost 98% - outperforming youngsters in England and Northern Ireland.
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More schools in England were judged to be failing last year - but as a proportion,  fewer were in such trouble.
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Soft and slow Complacency and incompetence continue to plague a US education system that has fallen well behind other nations, according US Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings.â¦
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The most physically fit group of third-, fourth- and fifth-graders tend to score highest on an academic test known as the Illinois Standard Achievement Test, a group of researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign reports.
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A-level results show that boys are improving their exam performance more rapidly than girls.
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Test results released in Washington Monday indicate US 15-year-olds are performing below the international average in math and problem solving.
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The first comparison of test scores in charter schools and public schools shows charter school students often doing worse than students in regular public schools.
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Almost a fifth of England's state secondary schools do not meet GCSE targets but things are improving.
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American eighth-graders improved their math and science scores on an international test last year, but fourth-graders&#39; scores were flat and all students
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American and European schoolchildren are losing ground to countries such as China and India that are adapting faster to changing needs and producing more of the high-skilled workers the 21st century demands, a new report says.
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The world has changed, but the American classroom, for the most part, hasn't.  Now educators are starting to look at what must be done to make sure our kids make the grade in the new global economy