Arne Duncan: ‘White suburban moms’ upset that Common Core shows their kids aren’t ‘brilliant’

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82. Perhaps you could back that up with a little data?

Are you saying that US public schools are performing as well as, say, Japan or the Netherlands or even England? I'm unsure how your dislike of a report I barely recall (I checked it out, and I was in high school when the report came out) has any bearing on the current discussion.
Now, full disclosure here, I taught secondary science and math as well as college level courses in education and journalism, and I finally left it in utter disgust at the damage we have doing to our own nation since the 1940s and the uselessness of my own futile attempts to address it. I saw the Tea Party coming back in the '90s, and it emerged from our failed education system. Many of those mouth breathing armed zombie sheep have college degrees, and most of them graduated from high school.
Perhaps you could point me towards a "truthful analysis"? I've always relied on multiple sources of research, much of it compiled by experts in the field.
Perhaps I missed something.
So please, point me towards a study that shows US students are as good at mathematics and language skills as students from other industrialized nations, and I will question my conclusion that American public schools are an unmitigated disaster that accomplishes their task about as well as the Fukushima power plant boils water.
Huffington post article on this topic that cites actual research.
That last bit was hyperbole.