Time for another global-com-petitiveness alert. In the Third International Mathematics and Science Study—which last year tested a half-million students in 41 countries—American eighth graders scored below the world average in math. And that's not even the worst part. Consider this as you try to figure out which countries will dominate the technology markets of the 21st century: the top 10 percent of America's math students scored about the same as the average kid in the global leader, Singapore.
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