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Home - Types of Scores in Assessment American students are still
falling behind in math compared to the rest of the world
according to results from the 2009 Programmme for International
Student Assessment, commonly known as PISA. The results showed
that American students are behind when compared to those in
other industrialized nations across the globe. The United States
ranked 31st in math, which shows no improvement from the 2006
PISA. Science literacy did improve since three years ago when
the U.S. scored below the average. In reading literacy we ranked
17th. Shanghai, China was