Scotland's Schools Fail a World Maths Test - and Reading Isn't Much Better
Daily Mail › December 05, 2007
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SCOTTISH teenagers have suffered the biggest drop in maths skills in the world over the past three years, a damning international study revealed yesterday.
On reading ability, there has also been a major slump, so Scottish pupils are now outperformed by their counterparts in Estonia.See the full content of this document
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Scotland's Schools Fail a World Maths Test - and Reading Isn't Much Better
Scottish pupils are ranked 17th out of 57 countries in the world for maths skills and 14th out of 56 nations for reading.
Ministers admitted Scotland's scores had tumbled in these key subjects since the last study...See the full content of this document
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