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US teens slip behind in global math scores. Is that a good benchmark? (quotes Martin Carnoy)

December 6, 2016
The Christian Science Monitor
By 
Ben Rosen
The US ranked 35th in math on an international exam given to 15-year-olds in 2015. But some experts warn the American education system is too varied to make sweeping comparisons to other nations. Martin Carnoy posits “If researchers spend more effort on assessing our own states' successes and failures in improving student performance and less on trying to draw lessons from countries with very different social and educational contexts, they are sure to spark a much more productive national educational policy debate than we have had in the past decade.”
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