EXAMPLE 3.2 Can Our Workforce Compete in a Global Economy?
In preparation to compete in the global economy, students need to improve their mathematics.2 At the website of the National Center for Education Statistics, nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard, you will find full details about the math skills of schoolchildren in the latest National Assessment of Educational Progress. Figure 3.1 shows one of the pages that reports on the increases in mathematics and reading scores.3
Figure 3.1: FIGURE 3.1 The websites of government statistical offices are prime sources of data. Here is a page from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, Example 3.2.