Only 7% of Oregon high school graduates have the math skills necessary to compete globally for top jobs, a new study says.
Only 7% of Oregon high school graduates have the math skills necessary to compete globally for top jobs, a new study says.
Oregon beat the U.S. average but trailed neighboring Washington and scored about the same as Lithuania.
Among the 56 countries that participated in the international math test, the United States ranked 31st, falling behind most industrialized nations with about 6 percent of students nationwide at an advanced level of math achievement. The percentage of U.S. students with higher math skills was most similar to scores in Russia and Spain, according to the data released Wednesday by professors from Harvard, Stanford and the University of Munich.
Read more at OregonLive.com.
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