广播电视英语短句 第 319 课：升学和就业-2

But he says the education system is "falling short" and "countries that out-educate us today will out-compete us tomorrow." 但是她说教育系统正“逐渐露出弊端”（教育质量下滑），“今天在教育上领先我们的国家，明天就会在竞争中击败我们”。

The United States is one of thirty countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. 美国是经济合作与开发组织30成员国之一。

The OECD has the Program for International Student Assessment , or PISA. OECD有一项国际学生评估项目，简称PISA。

Every three years PISA measures the performance of fifteen-year-olds. 每三年PISA就对15岁少年（知识与技能）的表现进行评估

In two thousand six, the United States had lower scores in mathematics than twenty-three of the other twenty-nine OECD countries. 2006年美国在其他29个成员国中，在数学素养上低于其中的23个国家。