Smart American pre-teens, Encephalon, and more

By dmunger on December 9, 2008.

The New York Times has an interesting article about the latest international math/science testing. American kids actually fared pretty well, behind just a few other countries. More focused testing on individual states puts Massachusetts kids behind only Taiwan and Singapore.
Encephalon is up at Living the Scientific Life
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But is there an empirically demonstrated relationship between the test scores of pre-teens and the kind of scientific and technological mojo required for economic competitiveness?

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