claim: "the brutal fact is, when it comes to education, america is slipping" behind other nations.
author: bob mcdonnell
evidence_1: feb 15, 2017 ... u.s. students continue to rank near the middle, and behind many other advanced  industrial nations, in international math, science and reading ... another long- running testing effort is the national assessment of educational progress, a  project of the federal education department. ... fact tankoct 18, 2016 ...
evidence_2: aug 20, 2018 ... back to school: is the united states falling behind on education? ... and kids from  other countries say american kids don't spend nearly as ...
evidence_3: sep 7, 2018 ... the us spends more on education than other countries. why is it falling behind?  spending per student exceeds the oecd average but the ...
evidence_4: dec 3, 2013 ... “the brutal truth, that urgent reality, must serve as a wakeup call against ...  duncan touted the fact that the nation's high school graduation rate this ... when it  comes to math, according to angel gurria, secretary-general of the oecd. ... on  the pisa test in math, but still fall behind students in other education ...
evidence_5: dec 3, 2013 ... while u.s. teenagers were average in reading and science, their scores were  below average in math, compared to 64 other countries and ...