The Beta Boston – Eden Shulman
“Latvia, Vietnam, Italy, New Zealand, and Poland. What do these countries have in common? Well, besides sheep, they all score higher than the United States on standardized math tests, according to a study by the Pew Research Center. The mediocre math and science scores among US students has been well-known for a while now, and public opinion reflects that. Only 29 percent of Americans rate the US Science, Technology, Education, and Math, or STEM, education as above average or best in the world. Thirty-nine rate it as average, and another 29 percent rate it as below average. Scientists are even more critical than the public. Fully 46 percent of scientists in the American Association for the Advancement of Science, or AAAS, surveyed think that American STEM education is below average, and only 16 percent rate it as above average or the best in the world.”(more)