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AS Bill Clinton sees it, there’s no crisis in American education. At a Rose Garden ceremony this spring the President hailed our fourth-graders’ second-place finish in science, behind Korea, as measured by the Third International Mathematics and Science Study. The good fourth-grade scores followed last year’s mediocre performance by eighth-graders, who came in 17th in science and 28th in math among 41 participating countries.

“There are a lot of people who never believed the United States children would score in the top two in the world on any of these international tests,” Clinton said. “Now they know they were wrong.”

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AS Bill Clinton sees it, there’s no crisis in American education. At a Rose Garden ceremony this spring the President hailed our fourth-graders’ second-place finish in science, behind Korea, as measured by the Third International Mathematics and Science Study. The good fourth-grade scores followed last year’s mediocre performance by eighth-graders, who came in 17th in science and 28th in math among 41 participating countries.

“There are a lot of people who never believed the United States children would score in the top two in the world on any of these international tests,” Clinton said. “Now they know they were wrong.”