CHEYENNE – Wyoming middle school students will have the opportunity to compete in the National Civics Bee for the first time during the 2023-24 school year.
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Chamber of Commerce Vice President of Education and Workforce Policy Cheryl Oldham issued the following statement today on the release of the 2023 Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development's (OECD) Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) results:“The results from PISA show a steep decline in math achievement for American 15-year-olds between 2018 and 2022, another data point in our country's backslide in academic achievement in the wake of the pandemic. Although the U.S. improved overall in this first post-pandemic international ranking, the math scores continue the alarming decline revealed by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) and statewide summative assessments.Today’s students are the workforce of the future, and American businesses cannot compete on the global stage if our students continue to fall behind. We need a national call-to-action to improve and increase the amount of instructional time o