U.S. Reading Scores Plummet on Global Exam
Quote:More than 760,000 teenagers from 91 countries and economies took the test last year, including about 4,600 in the United States.
Top-scoring countries included Singapore, Japan and Korea.
China also dominated the test, but the testing sample included only the provinces of Shanghai, Beijing, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, some of the country’s wealthiest coastal areas, prompting skepticism about cherry-picked results.
Still, those regions are highly populated, include some poorer areas, and are home to some of China’s top talent, said Tracey Burns, chief of global strategy and research for the National Center on Education and the Economy. Those students will soon be competing with American students for jobs and future innovations.
She estimated that the average student tested in China was more than five years ahead of American students in math, and three years ahead in science.
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