Author: Cynthia Mott

We have all read the statistics: The United States continues its downward spiral in ranking of the education and preparation of our students for college. A global education study reports when it comes to math, reading and science, teens in the U.S. rank 36th in the world. The assessment administered by the 2012 Program for International Student Association (PISA), included more than half a million students from 65 countries and is recognized as the benchmark for assessing the skill level of 15-year-old teens worldwide. It is not surprising that students in East Asian countries scored the highest, with Shanghai,...