Yeah, right. More like saving face! How embarrassing…

This is what we get for having a society that demonizes the intelligent among us, while putting goons like Bush up on a pedestal.

Dropouts

The United States has quietly withdrawn from an international study comparing math and science students.

Aug. 9, 2007 - Americans took note when Bill Gates said last spring that American schools needed to beef up science and math standards if the country was going to maintain a competitive edge in the new century. So did Congress, which last week approved legislation called the America COMPETES (Creating Opportunities to Meaningfully Promote Excellence in Technology, Education and Science) Act, which carves out a whopping $43.6 billion for science education and research.

So why did the federal government quietly decide last year to drop out of an international study that would compare U.S. high’school students who take advanced science and math courses with their international counterparts?
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Conspiracy theorists suggest that the U.S. government withdrew from the study without making any announcement because it anticipated another poor showing. “Maybe they don-t want to hear more bad news,” says John Ewing, executive director of the American Mathematical Society.

Peg Tyre, Newsweek

Source: MSNBC.com

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