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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 ...

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 latest results of the Program for International Student Assessment give tantalizing hints of the connections between students’ early-childhood education and their later math scores. A new ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There will be a collective gasp as governments and policymakers reckon with drops in 15 year olds’ math skills in the wake of the ...

Teachers mold children, often more than even their own parents do. That is why it is absolutely integral and important to make sure that teachers are competent in their jobs and can take care of the ...

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 ...

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 ...