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Though not the only country to see a decline, reading scores on PISA tests for US students have fallen headlong in this decade. {NYT 8 September}
The morrow is most bleak; abandon ye all hope —
FTA: The reading scores of American 15-year-olds have fallen sharply since 2022 and are near their lowest point in 25 years, according to the results of a key global exam released on Tuesday.
U.S. math scores are also among the lowest since the test began in 2000, even as students have held their ground in science.
By every measure, American students are being outperformed by students in Singapore and parts of China who had top scores on the Program for International Student Assessment, or PISA, taken by 15-year-olds around the world.
It is the latest warning sign for an American education system that has seen test scores fall over the last decade, starting before the pandemic.
A telling tidbit, buried somewhat deeper within the NYT article —
Researchers urged some caution when interpreting the U.S. results. The U.S. sample included about 4,600 students from 144 schools, but response rates fell short of the PISA’s targets. The Trump administration last year slashed staffing at the federal agency responsible for administering the PISA in the United States, as part of its plan to shrink the Department of Education.
Thus, to the fullest extent within its power, this unholy régime shall labour assiduously to obscure how grievously American children are falling behind their counterparts elsewhere, most particularly in Southeast Asia. Make the problem vanish by pretending that it doth not exist. Because such a stratagem hath always worked, at all times and in all places… yeah?
What y’all voted for, #Murica. Well done.
🪐💔 #QueSeraSera 𓅨 🕈
