U.S. students are seeing their performance on math slip compared to other countries ... Carr said the results show “sharp, steep declines” for U.S. students. The test for fourth graders ...

The results of an international test of academic skills released recently show dire declines ... students. The Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study measures math and science ...

U.S. fourth- and eighth-grade students’ math performance on a big worldwide ... “I would call these declines sharp, steep,” Peggy Carr, commissioner of a statistical agency at the U.S ...

Carr said the math ... achieving students made score declines in all of the assessments, while higher-performing students made score gains," Carr said. This divergence in performance is one ...

Tests show mixed results for US students There ... charts of reading and math scores for 9-year-olds and 13-year-olds in the U.S. don’t show significant declines since 1979.

The new NAEP results are based on performance in reading and math of samples of fourth- and eighth-grade students in every ... had larger declines. MPS math scores for both fourth- and eighth ...