She finally did the math. The leader of the second-largest teachers’ union in the US linked the worldwide drop in math scores on a key international test to the COVID-19 pandemic — during which she ...

Conventional wisdom is that top U.S. students fare well compared to their peers across the globe. According to this line of reasoning, the US doesn’t make it on the list of the top 25 countries in ...

Building on the work of the Center for Global Education at Asia Society and others, OECD has defined global competence as “the capacity to examine local, global and intercultural issues, to understand ...

The results of the latest PISA test are out, and since a picture is worth a thousand words, here’s a picture: The PISA test is administered by the OECD every three years to 15-year-olds, and roughly ...

Stewart Riddle does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

The results for PISA 2009 are revisited, focusing on the large decline in the scores of Irish students in reading and mathematics achievement. Findings concerning two aspects of PISA are reviewed: (a) ...

One of the most publicized and scrutinized tools for gauging U.S. students’ progress on international tests is the Program for International Student Assessment, or PISA. Yesterday, a pair of ...

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Results for the latest round of international standardized tests for high schoolers are in, and once again U.S. students find themselves in the middle of the global pack. This has provoked yet more ...