Dateline - Perspective Ezra Earl Jones is the General Secretary of the General Board of Discipleship. Perspective is a periodic commentary about the life and the ministry of The United Methodist Church.
Significant change requires action by many responsible parties.
In early 1998, the results of an international study of student aptitudes in math and science in twenty-one industrialized nations was released. The United States was third from the bottom in math scores. Only Cyprus and South Africa were lower. Students in the United States are not learning enough math to function well. Knowledge in algebra and geometry is not even minimally adequate.