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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.

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 ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. 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 ...

On Tuesday, the 2015 Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) results were released. The news wasn’t good. PISA is administered every three years to a sample of 15-year-olds in education ...

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 ...

The Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) — the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD) global standardized test of student achievement — is frequently used by ...

where does Australia’s education system sit internationally? which countries are doing better than we are and which are doing worse? how are we doing internally – across states and territories, ...