Thomas B. Fordham Institute – Brandon Wright
“Rationalizing America’s lackluster academic performance is something of a cottage industry. One of the most popular ways people explain away our low test scores is to claim that they don’t matter much anyway…But what if these rationalizations are questionable?…What if super hardworking students in, say, South Korea and Japan are scoring worlds better than us on international tests and are more innovative and happy?”(more)