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PISA scores for the US are fairly good and stable in Reading and Science, especially compared to the OECD average. It's Math that has taken a hit over time.

https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/pisa-2022-results-volum...

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This is completely useless. They also add countries so the average trend is meaningless.

Maybe it's a bad measure.

It would still be a million times better than anecdotes and ragebait.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programme_for_International_St...

> Policy-makers in most participating countries see PISA as an important indicator of system performance

I know a lot of people who work at the OECD and the place is a bullshit-factory.

Do they have any specific reasons? Haven't heard that sentiment before so curious to learn something new

My impression is that they have a lot of careerist people who say the right things even if they don't really understand what they're saying. And because the scope of research is so broad, a lot of the management managing these people are either generalists and thus can't evaluate the work or also bullshitters.

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