The Wall Street Journal – Laurie Burkitt and Shibani Mahtani
“East Asia is now home to the world’s best primary and secondary schools, producing students who are able to outperform their counterparts in the Western world, according to a recent report from the Grattan Institute, a think tank based in Australia. The report said that the top education systems in the world were all in the Asian region – namely Hong Kong, South Korea, Shanghai and Singapore. The average 15-year old in Shanghai is performing math at levels that are two or three years ahead of students in the U.S., Australia, the U.K. and Europe, according to the report, which was based on data from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s Program for International Student Assessment.”(more)