Top Test Scores From Shanghai Stun Educators

In a speech to a college audience in North Carolina, President Obama recalled how the Soviet Union’s 1957 launching of Sputnik provoked the United States to increase investment in math and science education, helping America win the space race.
“Fifty years later, our generation’s Sputnik moment is back,” Mr. Obama said. With billions of people in India and China “suddenly plugged into the world economy,” he said, nations with the most educated workers will prevail. “As it stands right now,” he said, “America is in danger of falling behind.”
If Shanghai is a showcase of Chinese educational progress, America’s showcase would be Massachusetts, which has routinely scored higher than all other states on America’s main federal math test in recent years.
But in a 2007 study that correlated the results of that test with the results of an international math exam, Massachusetts students scored behind Singapore, Hong Kong, South Korea, Taiwan, and Japan. Shanghai did not participate in the test.

　「50年たった今、われわれの世代のスプートニクの瞬間がまたやってきた」。アメリカはソ連のスプートニクが宇宙に行った時、数学と科学への投資を増やした。
　アメリカはこの世界ランクでは低いけど、15歳時点での話で、大学まで行くとまた違った結果になってくるはずかもしれないです。

　でも大学ってそれこそ資金投資の影響が大きいから、このテストのほうが学力そのものは如実に出るのかな？上海凄いです。