1). Advocates of federal control also point to how centralized European and Asian school systems that show consistently higher levels of performance in United States schools have national curricula and tests. "The United States spends more than nearly every other nation on schools, but out of 29 developed countries in a 2003 assessment, we ranked 24th in math and in problem-solving, 18th in science, and 15th in reading. Half of all black and Latino students in the U.S. don't graduate on time (or ever) from high school. As of 2005, about 70% of eighth-graders were not proficient in reading. By the end of eighth grade, what passes for a math curriculum in America is two years behind that of other countries" (Miller, 2010, p.1). Not...
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