Education Next – Paul E. Peterson
“Our standard is not set so high that it keeps 15 percent of all Canadians, 17 percent of all Dutch students, and 23 percent of Korean students from reaching it. But in the end, the key fact is not the standard’s stringency as that a smaller proportion of American students meet that standard than do the students in 30 other countries. Nor would results change much if you shifted the standard downward, as the average performance of U. S. students also lags behind almost all of these same countries.”(more)