Watch: Education Experts Issue Call to Action About America’s Cratering Math Scores

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The numbers are beyond discouraging. According to the latest international PISA report, math scores among American students fell 13 points between 2018 and 2022, the equivalent of two-thirds of a year of learning. 

Only 7% of U.S. students can do advanced math, and affluence is no guarantee of student performance.

These disappointing stats will be examined in the next online panel presented by the Progressive Policy Institute and The 74 at 1 p.m. ET Thursday. Panelists will put the PISA outcomes into perspective and offer answers to the inevitable, “Now what?” moment of reckoning.

The speakers include Dr. Peggy G. Carr, commissioner of the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics; Andreas Schleicher, Director of the Directorate of Education and Skills at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development; and Jonathan A. Supovitz, professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education.

Go Deeper: Explore more coverage surrounding America’s math crisis: 

• PISA Exam Tests Real-World Math Skills. But That’s Not What U.S. Schools Teach

• American Math Scores Fall on International Test — But Many Other Countries Suffered More
• As Test Scores Crater, Debate Over Whether There’s a ‘Science’ To Math Recovery
• Advanced High School Math Classes a Game Changer, But Not All High Achievers Have Access

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