Students at Frazier International Magnet School wait outside before the start of school on September 19, 2012 in Chicago, Illinois. Scott Olson/Getty Images One of the biggest political battleground ...

Policymakers and pundits raise alarms whenever international test results are announced. In December, upon release of new scores from the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study, or ...

We’ve all seen the headlines: American students are far from stellar performers on international tests. Whether it’s the OECD’s oft-cited gold-standard PISA test on math and reading, the TIMSS test on ...

(Phys.org)—A comprehensive analysis of international tests by Stanford and the Economic Policy Institute shows that U.S. schools aren't being outpaced by international competition. Socioeconomic ...

I published a post last week, headlined “The fetishization of international test scores,” that, as the title suggests, discusses how school reformers inappropriately obsess about international test ...

Here is a third post in a debate on The Answer Sheet about international test scores and whether they tell us anything important about the U.S. public education system. The conversation began with a ...