"Concerned statements" seem to be all they are producing these days--------U.S. Students Slide on International Measure

U.S. Students Slide on International Measure | Heartlander Magazine:
"The latest international test scores, released Tuesday, show U.S. students sliding further behind their global counterparts in math, reading, and science.
On the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), a test administered every three years, U.S. students came in 20th in reading in 2012.
In 2009, they were tenth. On math, U.S. students ranked 30th this year. In 2009, they ranked 24th.
And in science, U.S. students were 23rd of the more than 65 countries tested, four below their 2009 ranking.
The results generated a raft of concerned statements."