Test results show students in the U.S. lag behind those in Asia and Europe.
U.S. fourth graders scored 18 points lower and eighth graders scored 27 points lower than they did in 2019, a new test showed.
Between 2019 and 2023, test scores for American fourth graders in math dropped by 18 points and scores for eighth graders dropped 27 points. Overall, math test scores stagnated, remaining comparable to math test scores from 1995, when the TIMSS began to be administered to students. When compared with students in other countries, students in the U.S. are only in the middle of the pack and behind students in Asian and European countries including Singapore, Japan, the United Kingdom and Poland, according to TIMSS results.
"This decline that we're seeing was there in 2015, so all of this cannot be blamed on COVID," the commissioner said. "We have been struggling with declining scores, particularly in math, for a while."
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