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Students in the United States are by and large treading water in the two largest international benchmarking tests in math, science, and reading, which both released 2015 results in recent weeks. U.S.

Mitchell Chester, the state’s commissioner of elementary and secondary education, was pretty upbeat when we spoke earlier this week. “If we were a nation, we’d be in a league with the ...

The results of the 2022 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) are out, and the United States ranked 28th out of 37 participating Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ...

The average OECD score was 493. American 15-year-olds declined in performance on the "mathematics literacy" portion of the 2015 international PISA assessments, compared to 2012 and 2009. Reading and ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A decline in U.S. 15-year-olds' mathematics literacy, according to the latest Program for International Student ...

This post originally appeared on the Inside School Research blog. Digging into the the latest data-heavy report from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development is turning up some ...

Does America have a high school math problem? U.S. teens still are performing mid-pack relative to their peers around the world on a set of international tests, according to a new report. On the ...

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 ...

Opinion A decade of PISA scores shows alarming achievement gap growth By Nat Malkus December 28, 2023 12:54 PM Twitter LinkedIn Facebook Email Print Opinion A decade of PISA scores shows alarming ...

This weekend, after American students failed to impress on the international PISA exams, the New York Times editorial board ran a piece asking “Who Says Math Has to Be Boring?” By “boring,” the Times ...