PISA exam, tested in Blue Valley schools, goes deeper than rankings
American schools, by holding steady on international test scores released today, are falling further behind the world’s top-performing countries in reading, science and especially math. While alarms sound across the country about the state of U.S. education, voices from all directions are stressing that it is not the rankings that matter, but how school systems […]
Read MoreOur schools should play on a world stage
Assessment tests must measure performance against students around the world, not just the country Educators need to have a clear understanding of how well we’re educating students, not just in comparison to other students within the region or the nation but throughout the world. As the country moves beyond the “No Child Left Behind” (NCLB) […]
Read MoreMy Little (Global) School
There was a time when middle-class parents in America could be — and were — content to know that their kids’ public schools were better than those in the next neighborhood over. As the world has shrunk, though, the next neighborhood over is now Shanghai or Helsinki. So, last August, I wrote a column quoting […]
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