Major global test shows U.S. students struggling after pandemic


By Xia Lin
  • World
  • Thursday, 05 Dec 2024

NEW YORK, Dec. 4 (Xinhua) -- American students' math scores took a bigger hit from the pandemic than their peers overseas, according to a major international test.

U.S. fourth- and eighth-graders saw their math scores drop steeply on a big worldwide test between 2019 and 2023, as more than a dozen other countries saw their scores improve, according to results released Wednesday from the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study, or TIMSS.

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