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> A quick look at the countries where children outperform the U.S. on the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) shows that none of them do anywhere near the amount of testing that is done in the United States.

I am not American so please tell me if it's just a prejudice but looking from outside, Americans seem to be very reluctant to learn from other nations.

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Well, I wouldn't generalize everyone living in America into a bucket of "Americans" - although I'll just assume that's not what you meant.

Certainly there is a good portion of Americans unwilling to learn from other nations or change or care about anything else, yes, they exist. But there exist Americans of the other kind, too. And this doesn't just apply to America, it applies to any group of humans, really.

True, but honestly it applies to Americans more so than a lot of other nations. It's only to be expected when, starting at a very young age, one constantly hears about how the US is "number 1" (what ever that means).

I mean, look at the Olympics. The US wasn't winning the most golds anymore so the news media actually changed the metric to use "most overall medals" so the US could be number 1 again.

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