Editorial: Why do American schoolchildren underperform academically compared to students in other countries?
by The Times Editorial Board, Los Angeles Times
Dec 30, 2019
3 minutes
Every time the results of the international PISA test are released, the United States gets another opportunity to whip itself for students' lackluster showing.
For those who are unfamiliar with it, PISA is the Program for International Student Assessment, a test administered to students in 79 countries around the world. It allows critics on both sides of the school reform debate to peer at the results of other nations, compare them to the U.S. outcomes and find examples that appear to
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