With the next round of global standardized testing planned for next year, education leaders anxiously await improvements by U.S. students and which version of China will participate in the assessments.
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) will roll out its 2025 PISA (Program for International Student Assessment) in the coming months.
These exams take place every three years and highlight the math, science, and reading proficiency of 15-year-olds worldwide.
About 80 nations participated, many of them developed or democratic countries. The rankings are viewed as a measure of the quality of a country’s public education system.
In the last PISA exams in 2022, the United States was ranked No. 18 overall, behind Denmark and ahead of Sweden, the United Kingdom, Germany, and France. By subject area, U.S. students ranked ninth in reading, 16th in science, and 34th in math….