EVERYBODY KNOWS . . .
...That the scores of American schoolchildren on math tests are far below the scores of Japanese schoolchildren on similar tests.
IN FACT . . .
...According to the Second International Math Assessment, the mean score for the top 50% of American eighth-graders was about the same as that for the top 50% of Japanese students. (Japanese students in the bottom half, however, far outscore their American counterparts.
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