<p>It would probably have to be Math and then Reading, seeing as statistically not all American students are scoring well across the nation in those two subjects, nor are a lot of them on par with students from elsewhere (Europe, Asia).</p>
<p>Take my highschool for example. It’s a private school in a very small community - we prolly only have 10 highschools, half public and half private. I attend a private school, which most people consider more academic in terms of the rigor of courses. But, we start our Math at Algebra I for freshmen year - even though most of us took that in the 8th grade. The public schools where I live only teach up to pre-algebra, and so there’s a discrepancy when private school kids and public school kids attend my highschool since we’re taught different math.</p>
<p>I know that’s just one case, but I’ve read that in general we’re not doing so well in Math and Reading. And I think part of it is because schools pay attention to only two groups 1) gifted kids, 2) slower learning kids. There’s nothing wrong with that, but I think a lot of schools often forget to challenge ‘average’ kids. They spend more time elevating gifted kids into honors classes, or trying to get slow kids to catch up - not a bad thing at all - but it’s at the expense of regular kids not getting the same amount of attention, or instruction, causing them to slack off. Teachers are oftentimes overwhelmed, too, with having to teach a class that caters to all kids, where there are no special classes available - causing some of them to get bored with the pace etc.</p>
<p>Anyways, that’s just what I think. </p>
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