Interactive Map: How Much Are Students Learning?

Interactive Map: How Much Are Students Learning?:

Interactive Map: How Much Are Students Learning?

Many Kids Across the Country Say Their Classwork Is Too Easy

By Ulrich Boser, Lindsay Rosenthal | July 10, 2012

See also: Do Schools Challenge Our Students? by Ulrich Boser and Lindsay Rosenthal

Download selected student survey results for states (pdf)

You might think the nation’s teenagers are drowning in school work. Images of students buried in textbooks often grace the covers of popular parenting magazines, while suburban teenagers complain about the length of their homework assignments.

But when we recently examined a federal survey of students in public schools around the country, we found the opposite—many students said they were not being challenged. Consider, for instance, that 37 percent of fourth graders say their math work is too easy.