Schmidt is the U.S. coordinator of the international study. Improvement in individual school districts is just the scraping the surface, he said. The problem is deeper than just districts can solve. What is needed is a national effort to design more challenging math and science classes. We don't have a national ministry that sets national standards.
Districts do their own thing.
He said work is in progress to pull a group of states together for better results. Bailey, the Petoskey coordinator, said school districts ought to take studies like the one released Tuesday seriously, but look beyond the numbers. Just looking at the numbers is misleading. The Traverse City Record-Eagle. All rights reserved.