While Latin America’s headlines in recent weeks have focused on the turmoil in Chile, Colombia, Bolivia and Venezuela, perhaps the most troubling news for the region in the long term are new ...

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 ...

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 ...

Several countries in south-east Europe performed worse than before in the OECD’s latest assessment of 15-year-olds’ mathematics, science and reading skills, with Turkey one of the few to display a ...

First administered in the 2000 to assess the quality of education systems across the world, the PISA (short for Program for International Student Assessment) is currently undergoing significant ...

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 ...

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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 ...