claim: the united states is "behind many countries in europe in terms of the ability of every kid in america to get ahead."
author: steven rattner
evidence_1: feb 15, 2017 ... u.s. students continue to rank near the middle, and behind many other ... which  every three years measures reading ability, math and science literacy and ... and  48% in 1990), improvement in the top levels appears to have stalled out. ...  copyright 2019 pew research center; about · terms & conditions ...
evidence_2: the united states is "behind many countries in europe in terms of the ability of  every kid in america to get ahead." — punditfact on thursday, december 19th, ...
evidence_3: sep 7, 2018 ... what are they doing right and what can the us learn from them? ... and – at the  broad level – all that money does not appear to be ... the us's scores and that  america lags behind other countries in its ability to help lower-income students. ...  there are now so many countries pulling ahead of us,” said tucker.
evidence_4: is it fair for powerful countries to make rules that make it difficult for less-powerful  ... most of us are accustomed to thinking of global stratification as economic  inequality. ... nations want to be like those who have attained postindustrial  global power. .... in some ways, the term global feminization of poverty says it all:  around the ...
evidence_5: jun 20, 2017 ... research shows that poor people in the us are 20 times less likely to believe ...  question: “can an individual who works hard in this country get ahead?” ... even  though the latter are significantly worse off in material terms. ... than in many other  countries in east asia and europe (the other regions studied).