A UNESCO skill test revealed a worrying educational crisis in Latin America, with three out of four students lacking basic proficiency in mathematics and 57% struggling with science. The Program for ...

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 ...

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 ...

Have you ever wondered how countries compare when it comes to their education systems? That’s where the PISA Test comes in. PISA, or the Programme for International Student Assessment, is a worldwide ...

This paper investigates differences between male and female student performance on multiple-choice (MC) versus constructed-response (CR) items used on the large-scale math and reading PISA tests. The ...

A decline in U.S. 15-year-olds' mathematics literacy, according to the latest Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) assessment, signals potential risks to academic proficiency and mental ...

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 ...

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This global assessment measures how well 15-year-olds do when solving real-world problems in math, reading, and science. Says Ed Secretary Duncan: The results must serve as a "wake-up call." The ...

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