You may want to shut off Fox News and research yourself.  The TIMMS Assessment compares us against the world and your data is wrong.  Who would guess that we outperform Germany, Sweden, Australia, England, Norway, Sweden on the science test...... http://timssandpirls.bc.edu/timss2015/international-results/timss-2015/science/student-achievement/

Research more and you'll see we outperform Finland in math in addition to many others that you assert are better.  Two of our states, Massachusetts and Minnesota, outperform EVERYBODY.  

Back to your desk, Stephen....do your homework.